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 [email protected] (435) 789-0091 ext.261 uintahlibrary.org basinlibraries.org facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Joy Nelson <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> [email protected] >> (435) 789-0091 ext.261 >> uintahlibrary.org >> basinlibraries.org >> facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Ian Bays <[email protected]> >> 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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> [email protected] >> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > -- > Joy Nelson > Director of Migrations > > ByWater Solutions > Support and Consulting for Open Source Software > Office: Fort Worth, TX > Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 > What is Koha? > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
