Summary: | Auto-create authorities for unlinked headings | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Christopher Chagal <chagal> |
Component: | Command-line Utilities | Assignee: | Chris Cormack <chris> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | katrin.fischer |
Version: | Main | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
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Description
Christopher Chagal
2010-07-28 16:35:51 UTC
A lot of the authority related code and especially the linking have been rewritten and improved since this bug was reported. But I am not sure if this can be closed or not - Jared, could you take a look maybe? (In reply to Christopher Chagal from comment #0) > When we originally migrated our data, we loaded ~ 40,000 auth records > corresponding to ~ 200,000 bib records. I ran the > link_bibs_to_authorities.pl script, but it appears that we have some bad > data in our authorities (or our bibs?), because some did not link correctly. > > I wonder if there's a way to utilize the process that creates authority > records from the appropriate fields during the record creation process to > generate authority records from unlinked headings of existing bibs. That might be possible now - but not sure. > In addition, we'd like to be able to delete the authorities we imported that > have no bibs linked. There is a script to delete unused authorities. > I asked this question yesterday on IRC#koha and Chris Cormack mentioned that > a script could be written for both of these and it "might be a good koha > code learning exercise for someone at catalyst." He asked me to submit this > enhancement and assign it to him. > > One thing I should add is this: If there is not already a duplicate auth > record checking functionality built into the process which auto-generates > authorities during the record creation process, it seems that this would be > important for a command line script, since we wouldn't want to create a > bunch of identical authorities (which would then not function correctly as > authority records). Perhaps the link_bibs_to_authorities.pl script contains > the necessary dup finding code? > > We're running 3.00.05.001 (on Debian Lenny), so it would be useful for us if > the scripts were compatible with 3.0 & 3.2. If necessary, we'd be willing > to upgrade to 3.00.06 (we're hoping to do so soon, anyway, unless 3.2 > becomes stable before we get around to it :) ). I think there are several issues described here: - duplicate check when auto-creating authorities - create authority records for unlinked headings automatically It might be worthwhile to split this into several more specific bugs if people are still interested. |