[Koha] record matching rules

[Kohn, Karen]

Thanks, Rachel.  I tried what you said, and it still doesn't seem to
work.

I loaded the record for Hot, Flat, and Crowded.  It has an 035 field
that looks like this:  035  \\$a(OCoLC)234316165.  The existing record
in our system has the same information - it's in 035, subfield a, the
string is (OCoLC)234316165.

  But when I load the record, it says no match.

 

What else should I check for?

 

Thanks.

 

Karen Kohn

Collection Development Manager

Landman Library

Arcadia University

450 S. Easton Road

Glenside, PA  19038

ph: 215-572-8528

fax: 215-572-0240

 

From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Rachel Hollis
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:04 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] record matching rules

 

Greetings, your matching is very similar to the one I have one for OCLC.
Mine is:

 

Threshold - 1000

Search index: ocm

Score: 1000

Tag: 035

Subfield: a

Offset: 0

Length: 0

 

The main difference is Tag and Length. MARC tag 035 is for OCLC and 020
is for ISBN. The manual does say that length is for the "numeric value
representing the number of characters/bytes to match in the string" and
while I've loaded only a small number of records - touch wood -
overlaying brief records has worked fine. I did add match points to both
ISSN (MARC 022) and ISBN (020) with title march (245) as some records
share an ISBN or ISSN. I did not add a match point to OCLC Number as
they are unique. I hope this helps,

 

Rachel Hollis, librarian

Stevens-Henager College, Boise Idaho Campus 

 

From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Kohn, Karen
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:53 AM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: [Koha] record matching rules

 

I sent this before the holidays and didn't get any responses.  I'm
hoping more people are following the listserv now than were in December,
and maybe I'll get a response this time.

Thanks.

 

Hello,

Could someone help me get the record matching rules set up?  I can't
find instructions in the documentation, and the ones that are in there
already don't seem to work.  We usually use the OCLC accession number as
match points, so I tried this (basically a guess):

 

Description - OCLC control number

Threshold - 1000

Search index: o

Score: 1000

Tag: 020

Subfield: a

Offset: 0

Length: 9

 

I also tried making the offset "ocm" since that is the prefix before the
OCLC number, which is 9 digits.

These were total guesses, but I wanted to at least show you what I'd
tried!

 

Thanks.

 

Karen Kohn

Collection Development Manager

Landman Library

Arcadia University

450 S. Easton Road

Glenside, PA  19038

ph: 215-572-8528

fax: 215-572-0240

 

 

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