[Koha] koha bibs & authorities problem

[Zeno Tajoli]

Dear Amy,

>A couple of weeks I reported to the list that I 
>am having trouble linking my bibs and authority 
>records in Koha v. 310001005.  I found mention 
>in the listserv archive of the link_bibs_to_authorities.pl utility.
[...]
>So my questions remain: (1) can anyone tell me 
>definitively if there is any way to connect the 
>bibs to authorities? (and if not – why does the 
>link_bibs utility exist??) (2) any tips on how to do it?

to connect the bibs to authorities you must to 
have the id of the authority record in the 
subfield 9 of every heading in the bibs records.
For example:

exp of a bib record (MARC21)

=100 1\$aFitzgerald, Ron$921
=245 10$aYear book of medicine

the connect auth record (MARC21)

=001 21
=100 1\$aFitzgerald, Ron$d1889-1953

The script 'link_bibs_to_authorities.pl' use the 
API C4:Biblio:LinkBibHeadingsToAuthorities 
retrive the headings in the bib record and try to 
find them in the authorities with a search. If 
the result of the serch is 1, it insert the 
subfield $9 with the id the bib record.
If you want a best result, you need to 
re-implement link_bibs_to_authorities.pl with a better matching algorithm

The problems that you report are problems of 
enviroment. The suggestion to export PERL5LIB, like:
sudo KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml 
PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib 
/path/to/<http://link_bibs_to_authorities.pl/>link_bibs_to_authorities.pl 
(adjusting paths accordingly)

is correct but probably not enough.
Try to call a Linux expert to watch your linux 
box (send to him/her those messages).

Bye

Zeno Tajoli
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