[Koha] as_usmarc error / biblio encoding

[Rachel Hollis]

Thank you for your reply, Sébastien. I do not consider you a newbie :-) because your replies are so helpful. I did check a couple of random biblios and found that those checked had 000/9 set as UCS/Unicode. Obviously there have been some changes since the years when I was expected to produce perfect catalog records and I'm more out of the loop than I realize.

Thank you for suggesting $ yaz-marcdump, I will leave that to my geek. The "can't call method 'as_usmarc' on an undefined value" error is a bit annoying and we are seeing it more now. For instance, "resumes" and "jobs" searches result in the error but "640.14" searches show the materials. Searching "atlas" and "maps" has the error but "map" does not as well as "medical" but not "medical dictionary." I read somewhere that the error may have something to do with an incompatibility with Marc favors in the database. Whatever the issue, I'd like it to be resolved and am not sure where to start.

Rachel Hollis, librarian
Stevens-Henager College, Boise Idaho Campus

-----Original Message-----
From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Sébastien Hinderer
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:24 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] as_usmarc error / biblio encoding

Hi Rachel,

Newbie attempting to reply...

> Greetings colleagues, yesterday I found a biblio record through
> Z39.50. It was for the e-book version (GMD "electronic resource") and
> I had the print version in hand. It had a the expected extra fixed
> fields and while I was at it, I checked the 000/leader. There I found
> that the encoding/position 9 stated UCS/Unicode. I'm fairly certain
> that we are using MARC-8/MARC21/USMARC.

These are two different things.
MARC-8/MARC21/USMARC concerns the structure of your bibliographic record
as a whole, so it says which fields contain what.
UCS/Unicode refers to the way characters are represented in itles, author
names, etc. UCS/Unicode seems a reasonable value.

> Could this be the reason we are seeing "Error: Can't call method
> "as_usmarc" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm
> line 2126" when searching the catalog?

That I don't know. If you have the record in a single file, perhaps you
could try
$ yaz-marcdump your file
to see whether something wrong is detected ?

My two cents,
Sébastien.
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