Hi Dan,
thanks a lot for the helpful information. Eva --- Mgr. Eva Cerniňáková [email protected] Tel. +420 211 222 409 Knihovna Jabok http:/knihovna.jabok.cuni.cz <http://knihovna.jabok.cz> Tel. +420 211 222 410 Jabok - Vyšší odborná škola sociálně pedagogická a teologická Salmovská 8, 120 00 Praha 2 2015-05-11 21:30 GMT+02:00 Dan Scott <[email protected]>: > Hi Eva: > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Cerninakova Eva <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> We are currently trying to implement Czech National authorities into >> Evergreen and have some question concerning authority records (and may be >> contribution to the debate on authorities during Evergreen conference in >> Hood River) . >> >> 1) Does Evergreen support Z39.50 update function? Libraries in the Czech >> Republic are involved in creation of authority records s and the issue of >> Z39.50 update is crucial because tool providing update of records of the >> Czech national authorities by cooperating libraries is based on Z39.50 >> update function. >> > > No, Evergreen does not support any Z39.50 update functions at this time, > and as far as I know there are no plans to support update via Z39.50. > > >> 2) Is it possible to replace Evergreen system authority number in field >> 001 with Czech National authority control number? According to the Czech >> national cataloging practice in the authority record the field 001 is used >> for Czech national authority control number. It is of course possible to >> use field 016 (National Bibliographic Agency Control Number), but as the >> cooperation is based on „living“ update via Z39.50, moving authority >> control number might be complication and potential barrier to >> cooperation. >> > > If you disable the "maintain control numbers" global flag, then this might > be possible; testing required. Note that that would also affect how control > numbers are maintained for bibliographic records. > > If you have administrator access, then you should be able to find this > setting in the staff client under Admin -> Server Admin -> Global Flags. If > not, but you have SQL access to the database, it would be "UPDATE > config.global_flag SET enabled = FALSE WHERE name = > 'cat.maintain_control_numbers';" > > A simplistic approach to preventing control number maintenance for only > authority records would be to modify the public.maintain_control_numbers() > database function to check for an authority-record specific flag (something > like 'cat.maintain_authority_control_numbers') and have that override the > general global flag. > > Dan >
