Authority links are not created for some 650 #4 fields

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 21

Problem Symptoms:
Authority links are not created for some 650#4 fields. In index list in BIB library no AUT information can be seen.

Cause:
Configuration

Resolution:
In xxx01/tab/tab_aut the following entry for index subjects is added:
! COL 2. 1; TEXT {1,2,3, ,}; ;
! 008 usage code;
! Usage code from tag 008 must be a or c:
! 1 - pos. 14 (Main or added entry)
! 2 - pos. 15 (Subject added entry)
! 3 - pos. 16 (Series added entry)
! If left blank there is no check on the
! usage codes in the authority record;
! 1 2 3 4 5 6
!!!!!-!-!!!!!-!!!!!-!!!!!-!!!!!
SUB 3 XXX10

According to the header description this means that an update with the AUT record is done only when position 16, field 008 of AUT record has character ?€œa?€?. Actually Field 008 of affected AUT records had on position 016 character ?€œ^?€? and therefore no update was performed. When adding the ?€œa?€? to position 16 for the AUT records the index will be immediately updated.

However the entry in xxx01/tab/tab_aut is supposedly not correct and column 2 should be changed to ?€œ2?€? instead of ?€œ3?€? as ?€œ3?€? is for series added entries whereas ?€œ2?€? is for subject added entries which is the case here.

Category: Background processing (500)

Subject: Ue (500)

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013