[Koha] Staging and matching authority records

Joy Nelson joy at bywatersolutions.com
Wed Dec 23 06:18:57 NZDT 2015


Tomas -
 I have found the 001 in authority records is used by Koha with the
authid.  Are you matching on the authid?  Or are you feeding in your own
numeric value in the 001?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Chris, we had trouble getting a matching rule for authorities. We ended up
> using the 001 field I recall. It makes use of the Zebra indexes, so it is
> important that you put the right one.
>
> 2015-12-22 13:40 GMT-03:00 Christopher Davis <cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov>:
>
>> Ian,
>>
>> Joy's correct, while MARC authority records can have ISBNs, they
>> typically do not. Sorry to lead you astray :-$
>>
>> --
>>
>> Christopher Davis, MLS
>> Systems & E-Services Librarian
>> Uintah County Library
>> cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov
>> (435) 789-0091 ext.261
>> uintahlibrary.org
>> basinlibraries.org
>> facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Joy Nelson <joy at bywatersolutions.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Ian-
>> > If you have the matching rule set up to match on the 010 subfield a
>> using
>> > the LC-cardnumber index, then the matching should happen if
>> > 1. your authority records are indexed
>> > 2. you have 010$a in your existing records AND in the incoming records
>> (and
>> > matches do exist).
>> >
>> > (I'm assuming here that you've also specified the incoming file is an
>> > authority file, not a bibliographic file. )
>> >
>> > I'm not sure that using a 020 will assist you in matching as that is a
>> > bibliographic tag, not an authority tag.  And I do not believe the 020
>> is
>> > indexed for authority records.  A tag must be indexed in order to be
>> used as
>> > a match point.
>> >
>> > When troubleshooting, I generally find a record I know should match and
>> then
>> > look at the 010$a in the incoming file and existing record to see if
>> there
>> > is anything that would potentially cause the match to fail.
>> >
>> > -Joy
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Christopher Davis <
>> cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Ian,
>> >>
>> >> Off the top of my head, I thought that you might want to tried adding
>> >> MARC authority field 020 (ISBN) as a match point to your matching
>> >> point rule? Not every MARC authority record will have a LCCN (although
>> >> most do).
>> >>
>> >> Good luck and Merry Christmas,
>> >>
>> >> Christopher Davis, MLS
>> >> Systems & E-Services Librarian
>> >> Uintah County Library
>> >> cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov
>> >> (435) 789-0091 ext.261
>> >> uintahlibrary.org
>> >> basinlibraries.org
>> >> facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Ian Bays <ian.bays at ptfs-europe.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi.
>> >> >
>> >> > We are trying to stage some authority records to match existing
>> >> > authority
>> >> > records to overlay them.
>> >> > We have used the matching for bibliographic records successfully
>> before
>> >> > but
>> >> > are having difficulty with matching authority records.
>> >> > The version of Koha is 3.20.01.000 and we are MARC21 using dom
>> indexing
>> >> > and
>> >> > icu chains.
>> >> >
>> >> > Before getting into the details, can I ask if anyone has any
>> experience
>> >> > of
>> >> > matching authorities (staging and managing) with any success?
>> >> >
>> >> > We are trying to match on the 010$a and looking at the matching rules
>> >> > documentation in:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> http://manual.koha-community.org/3.20/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks in advance.
>> >> >
>> >> > Ian
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Ian Bays
>> >> > Director of Projects, PTFS Europe Limited
>> >> > Content Management and Library Solutions
>> >> >
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