As a side effect of this feature, Vandelay now has a new option in the interface which allows staff to limit which catalog records to which an inbound record matches to bib records within a record bucket. When a record bucket and match set are chosen, only the records in the bucket can act as merge/overlay targets for the inbound Vandelay records.

Z39.50 Index Field Maps can be used to map bib record indexes (Metabib Fields and Record Attributes) to Z39.50 search attributes. The purpose of the mapping is to allow the server to determine which values to use for the automated Z39.50 searches. For example, if the Z39.50 "title" attribute is mapped to the "Uniform Title" Metabib Field, the extracted value for "Uniform Title" for each record in the bucket will be used as the "title" value in the Z39.50 search.

Mappings can be applied to specific Z39.50 attributes, which define an attribute type and a Z39.50 source, or to generic attribute types (e.g. "title"). When a specific attribute is used, the mapping will only be applied to searches directed at the Z39.50 source linked to the attribute.

The management interface can be found in the staff client under

Admin ⇒ Server Administration ⇒ Z39.50 Index Field Maps

Stock config.metabib_field entries for author include additional author- related data, like dates. For example, a value for Personal Author might look like this:

girdlestone cuthbert morton 1895 1975 creator

In the context of searching Z39.50 servers, the extraneous data can be detrimental. Creating a separate field definition without the extra data is recommended.

INSERT INTO config.metabib_field
    (field_class, name, label, format, xpath, search_field)
    VALUES (
        'author',
        'personal - trimmed',
        'Personal Author (trimmed)',
        'mods32',
        '//mods32:mods/mods32:name[@type=''personal'' and mods32:role/mods32:roleTerm[text()=''creator'']]/mods32:namePart[not (@type)]',
        FALSE
    );

-- FULL BIB (OR INDEX-TARGETED) RE-INGEST REQUIRED