[Koha-devel] Authorities searching (3 things)

[Paul POULAIN]

Galen Charlton a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at 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.

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