Galen Charlton a écrit :
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
3 questions/problems/suggestions :
I'm still working on a response to these, but to add a fourth one, with recent work Koha 3 is now in a situation where authority records are now *required* -- this was not true prior to the second beta. In order for a cataloger to be able to add or edit a heading in the bib record without being *required* to open a popup window for each heading, BiblioAddsAuthorities must be turned on. However, I don't think turning BiblioAddsAuthorities on is suitable for every library. as automatically creating authority records is a good way to enshrine typos.
I propose adding another syspref (perhaps called RequireAuthoritySearch) that controls whether a heading field is readonly or not in the bib editor. This would be orthogonal to the BibilioAddsAuthorities syspref.
I think you don't need this syspref : 3 use case : - library has a strong thesaurus, that should not be modified automatically : BiblioAddsAuthorities = OFF, and it's forbidden to enter something without using the ... - library has a thesaurus, but not a strong one : BiblioAddsAuthorities = ON and adding an authority in the biblio add it in the authorities - library don't care : remove authorities link the the cataloguing frameworks ;-) [1] with your 2 sysprefs, you could reach a situation where you have a thesaurus, and you have biblios that have authorities values that are not in the authorities. In UNIMARC, it's strictly forbidden ;-) HTH [1] that's why, in french UNIMARC installer, you have the choice between 2 UNIMARC : "lecture pub" (public library), that don't have a thesaurus, and "specialised library", that has a thesaurus. -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : 04 91 31 45 19