Authorities:
- -
- - When editing records,
- - pref: BiblioAddsAuthorities
- default: no
- choices:
- yes: allow
- no: "don't allow"
- - them too automatically create new authority records if needed, rather than having to reference existing authorities.
- -
- - pref: dontmerge
- default: yes
- choices:
- yes: "Don't"
- no: Do
- - automatically update attached biblios when changing an authority record. If this is off, please ask your administrator to enable the merge_authorities.pl cronjob.
+ General:
+ -
+ - pref: AuthDisplayHierarchy
+ default: no
+ choices:
+ 1: Show
+ 0: "Don't show"
+ - 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 $2).<br>
+ - "Lines starting with a comment symbol (#) are skipped. Each line should be of the form: (marc21|unimarc), tag, ind1:(auth1|auth2|some_value), ind2:(auth1|auth2|thesaurus|some_value).<br>"
+ - Here auth1 and auth2 refer to the indicators of the authority record, tag is a bibliographic field number or an asterisk (*), and some_value is a fixed value (one character).<br>
+ - The MARC21 option thesaurus refers to indicators controlled by authority field 008/11 and 040$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 (<a href="/cgi-bin/koha/admin/preferences.pl?op=search&searchfield=BiblioAddsAuthorities">BiblioAddsAuthorities</a> 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.)
+ - "<br><strong>NOTE:</strong> This system preference requires the <code>misc/cronjobs/merge_authorities.pl</code> 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.
+ -
+ - "Use the following text as default value for the 667$a field of MARC21 authority records (requires <a href='/cgi-bin/koha/admin/preferences.pl?op=search&searchfield=BiblioAddsAuthorities'>BiblioAddsAuthorities</a> and <a href='/cgi-bin/koha/admin/preferences.pl?op=search&searchfield=AutoCreateAuthorities'>AutoCreateAuthorities</a>):"
+ - pref: GenerateAuthorityField667
+ default: "Machine generated authority record"
+ type: textarea
+ class: code
+ -
+ - "Use the following text as default value for the 670$a field of MARC21 authority records (requires <a href='/cgi-bin/koha/admin/preferences.pl?op=search&searchfield=BiblioAddsAuthorities'>BiblioAddsAuthorities</a> and <a href='/cgi-bin/koha/admin/preferences.pl?op=search&searchfield=AutoCreateAuthorities'>AutoCreateAuthorities</a>):"
+ - pref: GenerateAuthorityField670
+ default: "Work cat."
+ type: textarea
+ class: code
+
+ 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.