Bibliographic Data Spring Cleaning with Sierra DNA
Bib entity tablesbib_record
• Each row of bib_record contains data fields for a specific bibliographic record.
• Contains III field, course reserve information
bib_record_property• Each row of bib_record_property contains
primary descriptive data from a specific bib record.
• Contains “best” (authoritative) title and author information
bib_view• Each row of bib_view includes metadata for
one bibliographic record. The metadata includes identification and status information, as well as data that determines how the system handles the record.
• Contains III field information, as well as primary title (245)
Tip:
Looking to search on an indexed field?
Try the phrase_entry table!
General Record entity tablescontrol_field
• Each row of control_field contains the variable-length field data for a specific record.
• Contains 006-008 field information, with every character assigned to its own column
phrase_entry• Each row of phrase_entry defines a phrase
index entry.• Contains information from indexes,
including title, author, subject, and control number
subfield_view• Each row of subfield_view includes data for
one subfield. The data includes both identifying metadata and field content.
• Contains subfield information from variable fields in all record types
varfield_view• Each row of varfield_view includes
metadata and field content for one variable-length field of one record.
• Contains variable field information from all record types
References and Resources• Sierra DNA documentation
o http://techdocs.iii.com/sierradna/ • Sierra Direct SQL Access (Sierra Documentation)
o http://csdirect.iii.com/sierrahelp/Default.htm#ssql_direct_access.html • pgAdmin
o http://www.pgadmin.org/ • Jasper iReport Designer
o http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/ireport-designer • Working with MARC (Code4Lib wiki)
o http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Working_with_MARC • PostgreSQL: Pattern Matching
o http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-matching.html • Typo of the Day GitHub repo
o https://github.com/GrinnellCollegeLibraries/typooftheday
Becky Yoose , Grinnell College IUG [email protected]
