Authority See From Tracing not working without a separate authority record

[Chris Sharp]

We have discovered that See From tracings are not working as expected when there is not a separate authority record present in Evergreen. For example, the author Ally Condie's authorized name heading is "Allyson Braithwaite Condie" with a 400 field containing "Ally Condie" (http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=6921848&v1=1&HC=1&SEQ=20150721090727&PID=dNleZEMymykEWXOLtogVnSeSVnO). However browse searches for "Ally Condie" do not produce results, and there is no discernible linkage to the correct record, which means that a patron doing browse search would walk away thinking we had no titles by that author.

Another example is the author Ursula Archer (http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=8917150&v1=1&HC=1&SEQ=20150721091401&PID=SqJGz4NTTNE0ImtyO4BwFZZqFg) whose authority record is for "Ursula Poznanski". Browse searches for "Archer, Ursula" do not produce results in the browse list.

Evergreen 2.7.2
OpenSRF 2.40
PostgreSQL 9.3
Ubuntu LTS

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

That's because the interface is based on what exists in the bib data. Specifically, only terms in use by bibs, or authorized headings /not/ in use where the unauthorized headings /are/ in use, show up in browse.

There may be a way to show unused unauthorized headings with some development, but it would take a little work. You'd need to start by changing metabib.browse_pivot() to use metabib.browse_authority_pivot() instead of metabib.browse_authority_refs_pivot(). In the end, you're going to end up with an entry for every single 4xx, 5xx, and maybe 7xx from your authorities, meaning tons of "dead" browse rows. Maybe worth a try to see if you like the output, though.

Could be made a switch, if it's a reasonable choice for some sites.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

If I'm understanding the original report correctly, I believe this may be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1358392. Can somebody confirm if this is the same issue?

[Elaine Hardy (ehardy)]

It does seem to be a duplicate -- this from the name authority heading and https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1358392 from a subject heading perspective.