Ingest Name Authority Records into Vega Discover
I think that ingesting name authority records into Vega Discover would improve capturing name tracings in the 400 field, so that for example if Samuel Langhorne Clemens is searched, Mark Twain's works will also appear etc.
Andrew Sulavik
shared this idea
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Mary Horman
commented
We have discovered that when we have a name that appears transliterated on the cover, but the name in the authority file is not transliterated, (For example, Dyanchenko on the book cover and Di︠a︡chenko in the authority record) that when the patron searches Dyanchenko (on book cover!) the result in Vega is, rather unhelpfully, a very small "did you mean Diachenko?" The authority record in Sierra has Dyachenko as an alternate spelling in a 400 field, so that it would be hoped that Vega would map to Dyanchenko as an alternate spelling, if indeed authority data was ingested into Vega.
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Nick Bennyhoff
commented
A large part of the reason for having authority records is to allow this kind of linking. This should be standard use of authority records by all PACs/Discovery tools.