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 2013yoosebec@grinnell.edu