Hi Koha community and Heather, What is the best practice to use Authority Type for Publisher ? We are facing some challenges(we are using 16.05). Request further inputs from this forum.
1. We want to use Authority type to have a list of all publisher details. Authorized Value would not be good as we have hundreds of publishers. We tried to use existing Authority Type CORPO NAME. For this, we created a few authority records against CORPO NAME authority type and entered the name of the publisher in 110a tag in the authority record. In the biblio framework, against 260 b subfield supposed to be for publisher, we chose Other Option-Thesaurus and chose CORPO NAME. When we try to create a catalog as per this framework and come to 260b - we are able to search the CORPO NAME Authority records and choose the name of a publisher. As soon as we choose, the publisher name appears against 260a!!! We dont know why this happens. The authority type is mapped to 260 b but the selected authority name goes to 260a meant for Place of Publish. Has anyone faced this issue ? What should we do to ensure the selected entry appears against 260b ? 2. Heather Hernandez had suggested(thank you Heather) we use 710 to use the CORPO Name authority for Publisher. In practically every Koha library MARC record I have accessed, the publisher info is in 260b. If this was transcribed data, Heather, wouldnt the 710 contain the publisher data ? I wasnt able to find it in 710 in any of the libraries. And today I came to know that 700, 710 and 711 are mapped to Author for search purposes. On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 PM Hernandez, Heather < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Krishna! > > The data in the 260 field (or the 264) is transcribed data--it should be > transcribed from the item, and may not be the same as the authorized form > of the publisher's name in the authority file. For example, a book may > have on the title page (made up example): > > "Oxford at the University Press 2016." > > This could be transcribed as: > > 260 _ _ $a Oxford : $b University Press, $c 2016. > > But the authorized form of the name of this publisher in the authority > file in OCLC & the Library of Congress is: > > 110 2_ Oxford University Press. > > So the record would have a 710 field with the authorized form of the name > for searching, access, etc.: > > 710 2_ Oxford University Press. > > The 260 $b and the 710 may be identical, but not necessarily. The > transcription becomes important when trying to identify particular > editions, printings, etc., especially in special collections, with rare > materials, etc. > > I hope this helps clarify! Cheers, > h2 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Heather Hernandez > Technical Services Librarian > San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center > 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 > 415-561-7032 <(415)%20561-7032>, [email protected] > http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/museum-collections.htm > > "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg > -- Regards, Krishna _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
