[Koha] linking authorities to biblios
Elaine Bradtke
eb at efdss.org
Thu Feb 7 05:49:59 NZDT 2013
The first indicator of the 100 field should be 1. I don't know if this is
the cause of the problem, but it is worth checking. Otherwise, what you
have done sounds OK to me. I am the librarian half of the team, so I may
have missed something on the technical side.
Elaine
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Haik Zargaryan <haikzargaryan at yahoo.com>wrote:
> Dear Elaine,
>
> After your e-mail I suspected that this problem may be due to non-latin
> characters of our authority records. So,
>
> 1. I have turned on IncludeSeeFromInSearches
> 2. I have created an authority record in English manually,
> 3. then attached it to a biblio,
> 4. re indexed the zebra (with -a -b)
>
> Again, although the authority and biblio were linked, when I used the 400
> $a "see from personal name" for the search, no result was retrieved. Maybe
> there is a problem with our authorities? Below you can see its MARC
> structure. Or maybe we are missing some important step?
> 000 - LEADER
> *@* 00331nz a2200145n 4500
> 001 - CONTROL NUMBER
> *@* 10125
> 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
> *@* AM-YeHGA
> 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
> *@* 20130205115609.0
> 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS
> *@* 130204|| aca||aabn | a|a d
> 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
> *a* Original cataloging AM-YeHGA
> 100 ## - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME
> *a* Personal name London, Jack
> 400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME
> *a* Personal name Լոնդոն, Ջեկ
> 400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME
> *a* Personal name Лондон, Джек
> 400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME
> *a* Personal name Landan J.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org>
> *To:* Haik Zargaryan <haikzargaryan at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "koha at lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 4, 2013 10:46 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Koha] linking authorities to biblios
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Haik Zargaryan <haikzargaryan at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> We have recently upgraded to koha 3.10. After importing our catalog and
> authority records we have used link_bibs_to_authorities.pl script to link
> them. During the process I was frequently (once per 1000 record) seeing
> this error on the console.
> -----
> Auth error: Query term includes characters that do not translate into the
> target character set (1072) Bib-1
> -----
>
> However, when the process is over it seems that authorities were linked to
> the biblios. The message below appears in the console.
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Bib authority heading linking report
> =======================================================
> Linker module: C4::Linker::Default
> Run started at: 02/04/13 10:40:18
> Run ended at: 02/04/13 11:16:16
> Total run time: 2157486 ms
> Number of bibs checked: 255350
> Number of bibs modified: 0
> Number of bibs with errors: 0
> Number of headings linked: 44199
> Number of headings unlinked: 722664
> Number of headings fuzzily linked: 0
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Moreover, when i go to specific records in the sub field 100 $9 I can see
> the appropriate authority code. Yet, when I search for the authority in the
> *Used in* column *0 records* is written.
>
>
> Not sure about the above, but whenever we do anything serious we rebuild
> zebra as the final step.
> I have a couple reports that I use to find 1XX and 6XX names and terms
> that are not linked to authorities, but your problem sounds like they have
> the linking authority number there, it's just not working.
>
>
> What is more, I was told that starting from this version we can search for
> the records using the *authority 400 a$* field instead of the author name
> just preliminary turning on syspref "IncludeSeeFromInSearches".
> Unfortunately, this feature worked neither.
>
>
> We're running 3.10.02 and following these instructions (from bug
> 7417) "IncludeSeeFromInSearches" worked fine for us.
>
> to enable the inclusion of alternate forms of headings in bibliographic
> searches. When the new syspref IncludeSeeFromInSearches is turned on
> (default is off) rebuild_zebra.pl will insert see from headings from
> authority records into bibliographic records when indexing, so that a
> search on an obsolete term will turn up relevant records.
>
> To test:
> 1) Enable IncludeSeeFromInSearches
> 2) Add a heading that has an alternate form to a record (for example,
> "Cooking" has the alternate form "Cookery," if you have authority
> records from LC)
> 3) Index the zebraqueue (or reindex if you haven't indexed your system
> yet)
> 4) Confirm that if you search for "Cookery" you get the record you
>
>
>
> --
> Elaine Bradtke
> Data Wrangler
> VWML
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>
--
Elaine Bradtke
Data Wrangler
VWML
English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and
Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send
an e-mail first. I work off site)
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