Hello, 3 questions/problems/suggestions : === 1 === Previously, one could search on authorities : - on the $a of the heading. Useful to find "Mister John" by not having all firstname "john" - on the heading itself - anywhere in the authority Those 3 possibilities are still in the staff client, but ... the underlying code treat $a as "Heading", and the result is the same as for heading. I don't know in MARC21, but in UNIMARC, the possibility was very important and interesting. I volunteer to reintroduce it, but I must know if it has been removed by mistake, or if there is something specific to MARC21. === 2 === Ordering authorities. Actually, the order is done on heading $a. That's not enough : when you search the author "Martin" (our french "Doe"), you get zillions results, unordered on the firstname. So we need to introduce a 2nd level of ordering. In UNIMARC, usually on the $b of the heading. === 3 ==== the authority-search.inc : there are 3 tabs, to search on heading ($a), heading, anywhere. libraries prefer the previous interface, that displayed the 3 lines, to show that you can search : heading ($a) : _______________ Heading : _______________ Anywhere : _______________ and you can search the 3 simultaneously. for example : heading ($a) : john, heading : Owen will find only surname john and firstname owen. the new behaviour is not clear enough for the users imo. how could we reintroduce the clear choice of the 3 input fields available at the same time ? Your opinion welcomed. -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : 04 91 31 45 19
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. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709
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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
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