[Koha] Koha authorities & searching

[Linda Culberson]

All,
This brings me to a question we've been grappling with here, and that is 
how/whether to get Koha to work with authorities.  We had used 
link_bibs_to_authorities.pl but found that, as Jared indicated, very few 
of our imported records actually did link.  Most didn't.

I would like to get a sense of whether libraries are using authorities 
in Koha, and if so, how?  Were the headings locally established or were 
they purchased?  In other words, how were they generated?   Please 
contact me off list if that is more convenient, and/or this is something 
that no one else might be interested in.

Thanks!

Linda

On 4/18/2011 9:55 AM, Jared Camins-Esakov wrote:
> Linda,
>
> au: searches use text matching. an: searches use the authority links.
> Imported records never (or almost never) have authority links, so when
> you upgrade to 3.4 (due out very soon!) you'll probably want to change
> the UseAuthoritiesForTracings to "Don't use," so that the tracings don't
> generate links using the (incomplete) an: searches.
>
> Regards,
> Jared
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Linda Culberson
> <lculber at mdah.state.ms.us <mailto:lculber at mdah.state.ms.us>> wrote:
>
>     All,
>     I may be misunderstanding how some of the links in Koha work, or we
>     could have a problem with our authorities. Either way, I'd appreciate
>     any help and/or insight.
>     In Koha, if I do just a general keyword search for "Mississippi Dept of
>     Transportation" I get 180 results. If I do an author search I get 150
>     results
>
>     If I click on one of the links for which that department is the author,
>     and then click on its "by" link it goes to an:7261 and I only get 16
>     results. Some of those are the department as subject and others as it
>     as author.
>
>     I thought au was the author index, and am assuming it is using the
>     authorities?
>
>     Any help would be appreciated.
>
>     Thanks in advance.
>     --
>     Linda Culberson        lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
>     <mailto:lculber at mdah.state.ms.us>
>     Archives and Records Services Division
>     Ms. Dept. of Archives & History
>     P. O. Box 571
>     Jackson, MS 39205-0571
>     Telephone: 601/576-6873
>     Facsimile: 601/576-6824
>
>> --
> Jared Camins-Esakov
> Freelance bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC
> (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445
> (e-mail) jcamins at cpbibliography.com <mailto:jcamins at cpbibliography.com>
> (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/
>

-- 
Linda Culberson			lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
Archives and Records Services Division
Ms. Dept. of Archives & History
P. O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone:  601/576-6873
Facsimile:  601/576-6824