[Koha] Problem in creating new authority types

[Ms. Naveen Ali]

Hello,

Thank you very much for the detailed response.

I understand and agree with what you are saying. 

The reason for not using authorized values is that I will be migrating data and my existing list of publishers and place of publication is in thousands.
Therefore as you suggested, using existing Authority Lists will be my way to go.

Also, I will take care of the things you mentioned regarding cross post and KOHA :)

This list is great support.

With best regards, 

Naveen Ali 

ITM-JE (EAKL) 
Inst Representative for 
HEC Digital Library Resources. 
NEDUET, Karachi. 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Indranil Das Gupta" <indradg at gmail.com>
To: "Ms. Naveen Ali" <naveen at neduet.edu.pk>
Cc: "koha" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Monday, 30 May, 2022 12:50:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Problem in creating new authority types

Hi,

First (a request), try not to cross post, especially when the question does
not have a developer / coding related context.

Second, traditionally name and place of publication are *not* authority
controlled in MARC21. However, it may be your local decision.

That said, have you already explored and found that Koha's Authorised
values not doing what you want? Authorised values for 260$a and 260$ may be
a better fit and you will also benefit from automatic filtering of the
values as your cataloguers do their work.

However, if you still want to use MARC21 authority control for 260$a and
260$b, you really DO NOT need to create new authority types as mentioned in
the wiki page you have referred to.

The place of publication can work as a Geographic Name authority and the
publisher can work as a Corporate name authority as per Koha's standard
authority frameworks.

Stepping outside these perimeters will mean you will have to have to get
your hands dirty with CCL queries, debugging zebra indexes and Koha's
search internals.

All the best going ahead.

By the way, "Koha" is a proper noun and not and acronym, and thus it is
incorrect to uppercase it as KOHA :-)

Cheers
-idg




On Mon, 30 May, 2022, 12:51 pm Ms. Naveen Ali, <naveen at neduet.edu.pk> wrote:

> Dear All,
> I am trying to create new authority types in KOHA 21.11 on Ubuntu 20.04.
> I am following this documentation Create new authority type - Koha Wiki (
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Create_new_authority_type )
> In the section on Zebra,
>
>
>     * I cannot understand how the att numbers are defined
>     * I cannot follow the next two steps, which require record.abs file. I
> cannot find the file. Neither the one in biblios nor in authorities folder.
> I need to create two authorities, namely, publisher and place of
> publication to accommodate my existing data which I will be migrating to
> KOHA.
>
> Support will be greatly appreciated
>
>
> With best regards,
>
> Naveen Ali
>
> ITM-JE (EAKL)
> Inst Representative for
> HEC Digital Library Resources.
> NEDUET, Karachi.
>
>
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