[Koha] subject heading authority control (MARC21)
Dear Colleagues, This is a question about the use of authority records for controlling subject heading fields (6xx) in MARC21. In a standard Koha MARC21 installation the same set of authorities (PERSO_NAME, CORPO_NAME, MEET_NAME, UNIF_TITLE) is set up to control both the form headings (1xx/7xx/8xx) and subject headings (6xx). With this configuration the user, when searching by authorities (Browse by author or subject in OPAC or the librarian using Authorities), is unable to distinguish: is the heading used as a form heading or subject heading, e.g. when searching, by authorities, for Shakespeare, William the user would get both: records in which Shakespeare is used as responsibility and the records about Shakespeare (with Shakespeare in 600). For me and my libraries this is not satisfactory. Is anybody facing the same issue? So, a possible solution is to create a parallel set of authority types (like S_PER_NAME, S_COR_NAME, etc.), which nearly duplicates the number of authority types. This solution, however, has a number of drawbacks: 1) at least AuthoritiesMarc ::GuessAuthTypeCode function has to be modified, 2) drop-down lists with authority types in authority searches become unreasonably long (users suggest there should be only By author, By subject, no matter if it is a person, a corporate body or a meeting or whatsoever, and By title). This is how I am planning to resolve this, but maybe there is a better idea? Or any comments that would shed some light on this issue? Thank you very much! Best regards, Janusz Kaczmarek -- Library of the Dominican House of Studies Cracow, Poland ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin characters)
Dear friends, I am trying to create cards for our patrons. Yet, when I export the batch instead of the 'names' and 'surnames' some strange characters are retrieved. For example, Name: Ô±Õ¢Ö€Õ¡Õ°Õ¡Õ´ÕμÕ¡Õ¶ Ô¶Õ¾Õ¡Ö€Õ© ÕŽÕ¡Õ¦Õ£Õ¥Õ¶Õ« Maybe this is because the language is Armenian (a non-Latin script)? With the English names everything works fine. This is a very important issue for our library. Any ideas how to solve the problem? Thanks in advance, Haik. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin characters)
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Haik Zargaryan haikzargar...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear friends, I am trying to create cards for our patrons. Yet, when I export the batch instead of the 'names' and 'surnames' some strange characters are retrieved. For example, Name: Ô±Õ¢Ö€Õ¡Õ°Õ¡Õ´ÕμÕ¡Õ¶ Ô¶Õ¾Õ¡Ö€Õ© ÕŽÕ¡Õ¦Õ£Õ¥Õ¶Õ« Maybe this is because the language is Armenian (a non-Latin script)? With the English names everything works fine. This is a very important issue for our library. Any ideas how to solve the problem? This is most likely related to the issues of UTF-8 and PDF. It has been discussed extensively on this list, so I will not rehearse it here except to say that it will most likely not be fixed due to the complexity of the issue. Some work has been done toward using css and the browser to handle card and label printing. Probably that is the best hope for a fix at this point. Kind Regards, Chris ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] subject heading authority control (MARC21)
Hi Janusz, I would suggest to do it the other way around. Let's the user specify if he wants to search, for example, an authority as author or as a subject. You will problably have to change few things in the indexation and in the authority search page, but you keep the advantage of having a single authority record, which prevent having to update 2 records, which is what an authority records should be used for, right :) Hope that helps, Eric Bégin Solutions inLibro inc. http://www.inLibro.com On 2013-01-23 06:15, janus...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Colleagues, This is a question about the use of authority records for controlling subject heading fields (6xx) in MARC21. In a standard Koha MARC21 installation the same set of authorities (PERSO_NAME, CORPO_NAME, MEET_NAME, UNIF_TITLE) is set up to control both the form headings (1xx/7xx/8xx) and subject headings (6xx). With this configuration the user, when searching by authorities (Browse by author or subject in OPAC or the librarian using Authorities), is unable to distinguish: is the heading used as a form heading or subject heading, e.g. when searching, by authorities, for Shakespeare, William the user would get both: records in which Shakespeare is used as responsibility and the records about Shakespeare (with Shakespeare in 600). For me and my libraries this is not satisfactory. Is anybody facing the same issue? So, a possible solution is to create a parallel set of authority types (like S_PER_NAME, S_COR_NAME, etc.), which nearly duplicates the number of authority types. This solution, however, has a number of drawbacks: 1) at least AuthoritiesMarc ::GuessAuthTypeCode function has to be modified, 2) drop-down lists with authority types in authority searches become unreasonably long (users suggest there should be only By author, By subject, no matter if it is a person, a corporate body or a meeting or whatsoever, and By title). This is how I am planning to resolve this, but maybe there is a better idea? Or any comments that would shed some light on this issue? Thank you very much! Best regards, Janusz Kaczmarek -- Library of the Dominican House of Studies Cracow, Poland ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Koha Upgrade
Thanks again for you help, I have been able to move further, however i got to the point of rebuild_zebra.pl and i get an error Can't locate Koha/DateUtils.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /etc/perl/C4/Reserves.pm line 40. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/Reserves.pm line 40. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/Circulation.pm line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/Circulation.pm line 27. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/Overdues.pm line 26. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/Overdues.pm line 26. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/Members.pm line 30. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/Members.pm line 30. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/Search.pm line 28. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/Search.pm line 28. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm line 24. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl line 11. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl line 11. CAn anyone guide me in the right direction. All dependencies seem to be installed. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-Upgrade-tp5739511p5739901.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin characters)
Hello Haik, There is no solution to this problem, which is why no further work has been done on it. As I say, the mailing list and bugzilla (bugs.koha-community.org) have extensive discussion on the problem. Kind Regards, Chris On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Haik Zargaryan haikzargar...@yahoo.comwrote: Thank you Chris. As I have understood from your response, there is some partial solution for this problem. I have searched the web, found nothing. Can you drop me a link on that issue? Thank you in advance, Haik. -- *From:* Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu *To:* Haik Zargaryan haikzargar...@yahoo.com *Cc:* koha@lists.katipo.co.nz koha@lists.katipo.co.nz *Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:09 PM *Subject:* Re: [Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin characters) On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Haik Zargaryan haikzargar...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear friends, I am trying to create cards for our patrons. Yet, when I export the batch instead of the 'names' and 'surnames' some strange characters are retrieved. For example, Name: Ô±Õ¢Ö€Õ¡Õ°Õ¡Õ´ÕμÕ¡Õ¶ Ô¶Õ¾Õ¡Ö€Õ© ÕŽÕ¡Õ¦Õ£Õ¥Õ¶Õ« Maybe this is because the language is Armenian (a non-Latin script)? With the English names everything works fine. This is a very important issue for our library. Any ideas how to solve the problem? This is most likely related to the issues of UTF-8 and PDF. It has been discussed extensively on this list, so I will not rehearse it here except to say that it will most likely not be fixed due to the complexity of the issue. Some work has been done toward using css and the browser to handle card and label printing. Probably that is the best hope for a fix at this point. Kind Regards, Chris ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Koha Upgrade
Dear All, We are using Koha version: 3.00.05.003 Acquisitions Module, ILL Suggestions/ Pending suggestions we are getting nearly 1000-1500 blogs Please someone guide us. Advance thanks Pandu On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:24 PM, mifantrax mihai.bojo...@tcmi.edu wrote: HI all, i need your help. I am very new to koha. I have inherited a koha installation version 2.~ with many problems on the server, old version of ubuntu, full disk, and other issues. I have installed a new vm vith koha 3.8 on proxmox and seems to work perfect, however i would like to migrate the old database to the new instalation, is there a beginners way to do that ? Will exporting and importing the marcs work ? Are there any other config files that need to be migrated ? Is there a guide somewhere ? I have been searching the wiki and i was not able to find it. Please someone guide us in the right direction. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-Upgrade-tp5739511.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- M.Pandu Rangaswamy H.T.Parekh Library Institute For Financial Management and Research (IFMR) 24, Kothari Road, Chennai - 600 034 INDIA Tel - 91-44-2830 3498 Mobile: 08807679789 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
