[Koha-devel] Cataloguing authorities 3.6/3.8

[Jared Camins-Esakov]

Paul,

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Paul <paul.a at aandc.org> wrote:

> We have just discovered a problem with 3.8.4 -- before I can rule out
> whether it is 'our' db or setup that is at fault, or a more general issue,
> I would appreciate some help.
>
> Basically our "authorities" are no longer functional.
>
> EXAMPLE A: TOPIC_TERM "World War" comes up with 414 results ranging from
> 'World War 1' to 'World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Japanese' all
> "Used 0 times" -- all were previously functional, searchable, mostly from
> Z39.50 imports, and had single|multiple biblios attached.
>
> EXAMPLE B: PERSO_NAME
>
> 1) Add a new biblio from Z39.50.  The author is 'Thomas, W. Donald'; we
> have several books by this author; using the default framework, click the
> icon at the end of line 100$a in addbiblio.pl, brings up the pop-up
> 'catalogue authority plugin', no sign of this author. [authorities/
> auth_finder.pl?**authtypecode=PERSO_NAME&index=**
> tag_100_subfield_a_995647_**916674&value_mainstr=Thomas,%**
> 20W.%20Donald&value_main=<http://auth_finder.pl?authtypecode=PERSO_NAME&index=tag_100_subfield_a_995647_916674&value_mainstr=Thomas,%20W.%20Donald&value_main=>
> ]
>
> 2) Search authorities/authorities-home.**pl?op=do_search&type=intranet&**
> marclist=mainmainentry&**operator=contains&value=**
> Thomas%2C+W.+Donald&orderby=**HeadingAsc<http://authorities-home.pl?op=do_search&type=intranet&marclist=mainmainentry&operator=contains&value=Thomas%2C+W.+Donald&orderby=HeadingAsc>--- Authority search results No results found
>
> 3) "Search the catalogue" from the home page (catalogue/
> search.pl?q=Thomas%**2C+W.+Donald <http://search.pl?q=Thomas%2C+W.+Donald>)
> comes up with 9 results, the first 5 are all by this author (the last four,
> fuzzy, irrelevant.)
>
> 4) From any one of the relevant entries, click the author's name:
> catalogue/search.pl?q=au:"**Thomas, W. Donald" gives all five proper
> results
>
> 5) checkmarc.pl gives 'Configuration OK, you don't have errors in your
> MARC parameters table'
>
> 6) authtypes.pl has the following "Define authority types":
> /...
> PERSO_NAME Personal Name Personal Names 100
> etc, etc
>
> The first 4 biblios were from our 3.6.1 db, which imported without error
> into 3.8.4 ; the fifth is today's Z39.50 import
>
> The cron -z is running every minute, but to verify zebra, I manually did a
> 'rebuild_zebra.pl -a -r -v' and a 'rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v -x' which
> went through all authorities and biblios without error but one warning:
>
> Records exported: 37716
> ====================
> REINDEXING zebra
> ====================
> 14:58:44-24/09 zebraidx(6239) [warn] Unknown register type:
> ====================
> CLEANING
> ====================
>
> So ... new biblios and items are being recorded, but the cross referencing
> to authorities appears to have died with the upgrade to 3.8.4
>
> Most unfortunately, I can reproduce this in my sandbox and the [now
> updated] production server.  We missed this entirely during our testing -
> mea culpa.
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>

Yes. The links are still there. However, there was a bug in Koha
3.8.1-3.8.4 that made the links not show up in searches. I believe it has
been fixed in 3.8.5. I do not have a bug number off the top of my head.

Regards,
Jared

-- 
Jared Camins-Esakov
Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC
(phone) +1 (917) 727-3445
(e-mail) jcamins at cpbibliography.com
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