Great. Thanks. Frances
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:02 PM To: Evergreen Development Discussion List Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Can I load MARC authorities with same scripts as the bibs? On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Frances Dean McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I load LC MARC full authority records to Evergreen with the same tools > we used to load bibs? > There is a separate tool called marc2are.pl which emits adifferent data structure. You then use direct_ingest.pl and add a -a switch to tell that tool it's dealing with authority records. The parallel_pg_loader tool gets a different set of command line arguments as well: -or are -or afr -a afr > > > Are they used in any way other than to Validate in Cataloging? They are used to provide cross-referencing search links in the OPAC (the contest of the "folders" in the sidebar) and are used as suggestions for searches with no results where the term entered is a non-authorized version of a used, authorized term. > Do Auth records actually link to Bib records that use the headings? > Not today, but "soft linking" (that is, it's available, but not required) is in the works for 2.0. -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
