https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16921 Bug ID: 16921 Summary: Authority Linking doesn't match to proper record Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: 16.05 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P5 - low Component: MARC Authority data support Assignee: gmcharlt@gmail.com Reporter: vanoudt@gmail.com QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org Created attachment 53394 --> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=53394&action=edit New Linker Module: BestMatch We've had some trouble here linking our records to their proper authority records. The zebra search seems to be giving back results that match only on the first word. Copied from an email to the devel list: ----- ...I'm in the process of trying to relink all of our biblios to the right authority files. Somehow, they were an /incredible/ mess. I've created the authority records okay, but when trying to run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl, it links them to the wrong places. Investigating, it seems like zebra isn't giving the right search results back. I can confirm this in yaz-client using the query that is created by koha. Searching for "Bentley, Peter, Ed." returns 4 results, only two of which are close. Actually, the record I'm trying to match is "Bentley, Peter, (Ed.)" - the last option. Interestingly enough, if I search for "Bentley, 3432531531532513985735981<anything at all here>" it will also show me the same four results.So does searching for "Bentley 513513531513515151".But searching for "Bentleyr435435151551251" shows no results, as I would expect. ----- Not sure what's going on here - but in desperation, I wrote a new Linker Module. It's called the "BestMatch" linker. Basically, it gets all the authorities back from the search, and then searches through them all to find the one that matches perfectly. If there is no perfect match, it tries to find a match that differs only in whitespace/punctuation. The only problem - it is understandably very SLOW It's possible that I've completely missed the point here. But the BestMatch linker seems to be doing the job for us. Note: To do a successful match, the authority data was exported from bibliographic records using koha-auth, then imported into the authorities table, and then the link_bibs_to_authorities.pl script run with the BestMatch linker selected. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.