On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Yamil Suarez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > George brings up good points. My current system does identify if an > authority record was created by a human or the system. Also we do end up > having to keep an eye on our authority records to do clean up when necessary > to cut down on any noise. Since our alphabetical searching is based on > mostly authority record data (author, subject, etc), it is in our best > interest in our old ILS to keep an eye on our records. I guess that for the > most part the EG OPAC does it searching and faceting by only looking at that > originated in the bib records and not in data found in authority records? Is > this correct? >
Correct. Aside from the authority cross-reference performed on low-hit searches, everything (except authority browse, of course) is done using bib data -- there's more of it, it's what the user sees, and it's sure to give you a hit, filters and scoping not withstanding. -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > > > > On Sep 30, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Duimovich, George wrote: > >> >> Sounds good - I know other systems have had this functionality. >> >> Big caveat, I think, is that any support for this functionality should >> come with a way of identifying "system generated" authority files distinct >> from the "official" ones. This would permit better reporting and additional >> automated actions against these records and/or for cataloguers to be able to >> better identify, review and then "officialize" them by changing the >> 'automated' flag after any updates/review. >> >> Our situation is that somewhere a long time ago (DRA / MultiLIS days??), >> our Unicorn-based records were in a system that had this feature alongside, >> I believe, an automated keyword generating feature. So we ended up with this >> HUGE authority list but the majority of them were questionable (generated >> from automated "650" keywords). I speculate that someone turned the feature >> on, and there wasn't any follow-up. So years later, we're left wondering if >> there's any "good stuff" in the authority records without LC control >> numbers, etc. but not having any apparent "hook" into easily determining >> which ones were cataloguer created vs. those created by the ILS's >> auto-authority making function. >> >> George >> George Duimovich >> NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan >> >> >> >> > >
