 |
 |
On 5/25/06, Edward Corrado <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been asked to set up an Open Source ILS for someone who is > teaching a cataloging class this summer. One of the things she was > hoping to be able to do with it is have students work with MARC > Authority records. I can't find any evidence that any of the currently > available [1] Open ILS systems use MARC Authority records [2]. Does > anyone know of one that does? Maybe I'm missing something. > > Ed C. > > > [1] A 2002 article in Information Today > (http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=9975) mentions > that the LearningAccess ILS uses MARC Authority records, but I went to > there website and didn't see any evidence that this product was still an > Open Source program (and also I didn't see no way to download it). I > will probably contact them separately if I can't find another system to use. > > [2] It appears that Evergreen will use MARC Authority records, but the > wiki says "authority control in marc editor" is still on the to-do > list*"**** > * We (OpenILS/Evergreen) do import authority records, and we use them for search augmentation -- see-also and see-from for subject, author and series, as well as hints where there are few or no hits for a term. By the end of this summer, our MARC editor will use authority records to verify the use of controlled terms on specific tags and subfields. What we don't currently have is a direct user interface for manipulating authority records. I expect that this will come sometime in the fall of this year. Hope that helps! -- Mike Rylander [log in to unmask] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org