[Bug 33100] New: Authority linking doesn't work for bib headings ending in two or more punctuation characters

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1 Mar 2023 1 Mar '23

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33100 Bug ID: 33100 Summary: Authority linking doesn't work for bib headings ending in two or more punctuation characters Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: Cataloging Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: phil@chetcolibrary.org QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org CC: m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl, nick@bywatersolutions.com At the time of bug 24094 this apparently worked, but now in both my production 22.05 instance and a master sandbox, while Doe, John A. in a bib record will link to Doe, John A. in an authority record, Doe, John A., (as it will be in virtually every RDA record, since you are supposed to have a $e relator for personal names, and you are supposed to have a comma before the $e) will not link to the Doe, John A. authority record. That's a barely noticeable thing unless you actually track your unlinked authorites, but it's very noticeable if you use AutoCreateAuthorites and the first-match linker. In that case, every time you add a new Box, C. J. item, the linker strips off the comma from $aBox, C. J.,$eauthor., declares that your existing authority record for Box, C. J. doesn't match, and AutoCreateAuthorities also strips off the comma, creates a new duplicate Box, C. J. record, and then does it again the next time you save the record, and then does it again when you update the authority record for the series heading because it changed, and that triggers relinking the whole bib record, then again any time you edit the record or any authority linked to it. Two maybe-interesting exceptions, from when I started out looking at all the punctuation that _get_search_form in C4/Heading/MARC21.pm trims from the end of a bib heading to attempt to make it searchable, and the not-quite-the-same things that AutoCreateAuthorities strips before creating what it hopes will be an authority heading that will actually still match during the next linking: Doe, John A-- will autocreate an authority record which is exactly that, because autocreate's set of punctuation lack only that one character from _get_search_heading's regex, but, even though _get_search_heading will turn that into a search for Doe, John A- during a relink, that will match the -- authority form. The same is true for other characters: if you edit the authority record for Doe, John A. and make it Doe, John A., then that will match a bib record with Doe, John A., and will also match a bib record with Doe, John A.! or Doe, John A./ or Doe, John A.^ which isn't even in the set of stripped punctuation so the search should be for Doe, John A.^ and that still matches Doe, John A., Doe, John A=, will match an authority record for Doe, John A with no punctuation, though there's no similar magic for Doe, John,= where _get_search_heading has stripped off the equal sign, making me think at least that bit of magic is happening in the search engine or the query prep. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.

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