{"id":31,"date":"2009-03-20T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ac.bslw.com\/community\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2009-03-20T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:53:19","slug":"always-load-in-correct-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ac.bslw.com\/community\/blog\/2009\/03\/always-load-in-correct-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Load in Correct Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHY IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO LOAD YOUR AUTHORITIES IN THE ORDER WE PROCESSED THEM<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have often had clients ask us in what order they should load their authorities, if they have several groups to load.\u00a0 Perhaps you’ve found yourself in the situation where you haven’t loaded your last set of authority updates and now you’ve sent in new bibliographic records to be processed, or maybe your next scheduled update has arrived.\u00a0 You find yourself looking at two or more batches of authorities and you wonder, “Does it really matter which goes first?”\u00a0 Absolutely<\/em>!\u00a0 And here’s why:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0 Say you had a scheduled authority update in December, but things went crazy busy and you haven’t had time to load those authorities yet.\u00a0 Now it’s March and you have a large group of new bibliographic records that need processing, so you send them in.\u00a0 Thinking you can save time by loading both the December updates and the bibliographic authorities at the same time, you wait for the new group to be returned.\u00a0 But now … which to load first?\u00a0 You should load the December updates first.\u00a0 Example:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0 You have a heading for Doe, John,$d1955-<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 and sometime last year LC updated that<\/span> to Doe, John Joseph,$d1955-<\/em><\/strong><\/span> (and if we’re lucky, LC added the “old” heading as a 400 see-reference).\u00a0 This changed authority would deliver with the December group you hadn’t loaded yet.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0 Now you’ve sent in your bib records and in there is the heading for Doe, John,$d1955-<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 .\u00a0 However, between December and today’s date LC decided to edit the record again<\/span><\/span> and they put out a new authority with the new heading of: Doe, John J.,$d1955-<\/strong><\/span><\/em> (and still kept the original “old” heading of Doe, John,$d1955-<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 in a 400 see-reference tag).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0 With the processed bibs you’d get back the very newest authority for Doe, John J.,$d1955-<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, which is what you’d want in your system.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0 But<\/strong><\/em> if you decide to load the bibliographic records and associated authorities first<\/em> and the December authority updates second<\/em>, the middle version of Doe, John Joseph,$d1955-<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/em> (from the December updates) would overwrite the newest authority sent with the bibs, and you would be stuck with an older, not current LC version of this heading.<\/p>\n

Which is why it’s always wisest to load oldest-to-newest, when you’re working with several projects at once.<\/p>\n

Written by: Judy Archer<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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