Authorities:
General:
-
- pref: AuthDisplayHierarchy
default: no
choices:
1: Display
0: "Don't display"
- broader term/narrower term hierarchies when viewing authorities.
-
- Use the following text to edit how authority records control indicators of attached bibliographic fields (and possibly subfield $2).
- "Lines starting with a comment symbol (#) are skipped. Each line should be of the form: (marc21|unimarc), tag, ind1:(auth1|auth2|some_value), ind2:(auth1|auth2|thesaurus|some_value).
"
- Here auth1 and auth2 refer to the indicators of the authority record, tag is a bibliographic field number or an asterisk (*), and some_value is a fixed value (one character).
- The MARC21 option thesaurus refers to indicators controlled by authority field 008/11 and 040$f.
- pref: AuthorityControlledIndicators
type: textarea
-
- When editing records,
- pref: BiblioAddsAuthorities
default: no
choices:
1: allow
0: "don't allow"
- them to automatically create new authority records if needed, rather than having to reference existing authorities.
-
- When editing records,
- pref: AutoCreateAuthorities
default: yes
choices:
1: generate
0: "don't generate"
- authority records that are missing (BiblioAddsAuthorities must be set to "allow" for this to have any effect).
-
- When modifying an authority record, do not update attached bibliographic records if the number exceeds
- pref: AuthorityMergeLimit
default: 50
- records. (Above this limit, the merge_authority cron job will merge them.)
- "
NOTE: This system preference requires the misc/cronjobs/merge_authorities.pl
cronjob. Ask your system administrator to schedule it."
-
- "Use the following text for the contents of MARC21 authority control field 008 position 06-39 (fixed length data elements). Do NOT include the date (position 00-05):"
- pref: MARCAuthorityControlField008
default: "|| aca||aabn | a|a d"
type: textarea
class: code
-
- pref: UseAuthoritiesForTracings
default: yes
choices:
1: Use
0: "Don't use"
- authority record numbers instead of text strings for searches from subject tracings.
-
- "Use the following text for the contents of UNIMARC authority field 100 position 08-35 (fixed length data elements). Do NOT include the date (position 00-07):"
- pref: UNIMARCAuthorityField100
default: "afrey50 ba0"
type: textarea
class: code
-
- When updating bibliographic records from an attached authority record ("merging"), handle subfields of relevant bibliographic record fields in
- pref: AuthorityMergeMode
default: "loose"
choices:
"loose": loose
"strict": strict
- mode. In strict mode subfields that are not found in the authority record, are deleted. Loose mode will keep them. Loose mode is the historical behavior and still the default.
Linker:
-
- Use the
- pref: LinkerModule
default: Default
choices:
Default: default
FirstMatch: "first match"
LastMatch: "last match"
- linker module for matching headings to authority records.
-
- "Set the following options for the authority linker:"
- pref: LinkerOptions
class: multi
- (separate options with |).
-
- pref: LinkerRelink
default: yes
choices:
1: Do
0: "Don't"
- relink headings that have previously been linked to authority records.
-
- pref: LinkerKeepStale
default: no
choices:
1: Do
0: "Don't"
- keep existing links to authority records for headings where the linker is unable to find a match.
-
- pref: CatalogModuleRelink
default: no
choices:
1: Do
0: "Don't"
- automatically relink headings that have previously been linked when saving records in the cataloging module.