From: Hilary Caws-Elwitt Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 20:32:38 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Added intro from wiki on authorities for fork/pull test X-Git-Url: http://git.equinoxoli.org/?p=Evergreen-DocBook.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee1c57d4e595266c9c041afffe4d5888c432fb61 Added intro from wiki on authorities for fork/pull test --- diff --git a/2.0/stafftasks/cataloging.xml b/2.0/stafftasks/cataloging.xml index 1469ba3..d30393f 100644 --- a/2.0/stafftasks/cataloging.xml +++ b/2.0/stafftasks/cataloging.xml @@ -289,6 +289,15 @@ desired terms. Authority records are in MARC format. See http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html for more on the standard. +Some of the authority-oriented features in Evergreen 2.0 include: + + Following the Library of Congress standard, a field in a bibliographic record is controlled by an authority record when it contains a ‡0 subfield. In Evergreen, the system control number in the ‡0 subfield is always interpreted as the local ID for the authority record. + When an authority record is edited or merged with another authority record, changes in authority records are automatically propagated to linked bibliographic records. + A user interface for managing authorities, including searching, editing, merging, and deleting authorities. + A script for linking fields in a set of uncontrolled bibliographic records to a set of authority records. + + + See http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=authorities:2.0 for more