[yul-naco] FW: OFFICAL: Changes to Connexion authorities

[Arakawa, Steven]

FYI



Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:50 AM
To: OCLC-CAT at OCLC.ORG
Subject: [OCLC-CAT] OFFICAL: Changes to Connexion authorities

Apologies for duplication; the message below will be cross-posted to various listservs.

As part of the Connexion install this past Sunday, September 23, 2013, changes have been made to resolve changes introduced to authorities browsing as part of a previous install.  These changes include the resolution of the separate entries for heading that contain different and or no terminal punctuation.

Browsing
Currently, headings containing terminal or no punctuation appear as separate entries.

Example 1a (Current)
Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616,
Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616.

Following the install, the presence or absence of terminal punctuation are now once again collapsed into a single entry:

Example 1b (New)
Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616

As a result of the changes made to support the new indexing functionality, there has been an impact on the placement of the highlighted heading if an exact match is not found.  In some cases, the highlighted text will no longer be in the middle of the list.

For example, if you were to browse the heading:
& violine
In the genre index, currently, if no match is found, the system automatically highlights the center of the displayed list:

Example 2a (Current)
Actualities (Motion pictures)

Following the install, the highlighted entry is 3-D films, as the heading & violin would file at the top of the index.

Example 2b (New)
3-D films

Controlling
Changes have been made to controlling to handle incorrect ordering of non-controllable subfields changes made involving $3 and $i.  There are situations that could produce unexpected results involving punctuation between the $3 and $i respectively, if the subfields were to be re-ordered.  Please keep in mind that neither $3 or $i are controllable subfields, and the controlling software makes no attempt to modify punctuation associated with uncontrolled subdivisions.

In situations of this type, please send information of these types to support at oclc.org<mailto:support at oclc.org> so that staff can investigate the problem and determine the appropriate action.


Please contact OCLC-Support at support at oclc.org<mailto:support at oclc.org> with any questions or concerns related to this announcement.

Regards,
--Becky Dean
Senior Product Analyst
deanr at oclc.org<mailto:deanr at oclc.org>

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