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| Time | Nick | Message |
|---|---|---|
| 13:59 | pate | hi ho |
| 14:00 | owen | Hi again pate |
| 14:02 | pate | how're things today? |
| 14:05 | owen | I'm trying to use my rusty high-school French to puzzle through some of Paul's documentation |
| 14:06 | JYL57 | owen I can help you if you want |
| 14:06 | owen | Are you familiar with Authority Management? |
| 14:06 | JYL57 | Not at all, but I'm a french native ;-) |
| 14:07 | And I've got koha 2.2 runing here... | |
| 14:09 | owen | I'm looking at this document: http://www.kohadocs.org/migrer_ses_donnees.html |
| 14:09 | This section: 2.5.2.3. Paramétrage de la grille d'autorité | |
| 14:10 | JYL57 | jumping to read it... |
| 14:13 | owen | Part of my problem is that I don't fully understand what Authorities are supposed to do. |
| 14:14 | JYL57 | owen, as far as I understand, authorities are a way to structure and organize notice complimentary data |
| 14:16 | owen | So it alters the display of bibliographic information in some way, to point out similar data? |
| 14:17 | JYL57 | no only the display, but the search also I think ! |
| 14:19 | Paul said in his text "I won't offense you by reminding what authorities are..." | |
| 14:19 | owen | :) |
| 14:19 | JYL57 | Maybe he should have... haha ! |
| 14:21 | my librarian explained me that's they are different norms to unify ordering of items... | |
| 14:22 | this hierarchies are complex and not obvious | |
| 14:22 | having predefined Authorities to manage that is useful | |
| 14:24 | owen | I'm beginning to understand what the authority records are supposed to do. Now I'm just now sure how they work in Koha. |
| 14:25 | JYL57 | We decided to implement them in phase II of our long road... |
| 14:26 | owen | Yes, I don't think it's something we've ever had in our catalog, even before we switched to Koha. |
| 14:26 | I think many libraries are accustomed to purchasing authority records separately | |
| 14:29 | JYL57 | I've seen some predefined downloadable files on the French National Library... |
| 14:29 | And Paul has added a bulkauthimport tool that we hope to use soon... | |
| 14:33 | owen | Hmm... interesting. |
| 14:34 | That would certainly be easier than defining them all by hand | |
| 14:35 | JYL57 | sure ! the problem is to find a list linked to your own norms |
| 14:36 | owen | Thanks for your help. I think I'm going to put this aside for now. |
| 14:36 | JYL57 | in between I logged on Paul Koha website to check... |
| 14:37 | But wasn't more informed... | |
| 14:37 | Your welcome owen |
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