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From: | Paul POULAIN |
Subject: | Re: [Koha-zebra] Zebra and non-filing characters |
Date: | Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:34:13 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-7.1.20060mdk (X11/20050322) |
Sebastian Hammer a écrit :
Joshua Ferraro wrote:You mean using an indicator in the field to determine how many characters to skip? To the best of my knowledge, this is not supported at present, sorry.Hello everyone, This is just generic question regarding Zebra's handling of MARC non-filing characters. I know there is a 'stopwords'-like function available using the 'map' directive: map (^The\s) @ but I'm wondering whether Zebra is also capable of examining the non-filing character specs within each MARC field to decide whether to index or not to index ...
Would really be a nice feature, at least for MARC-lover catalogers (that still exists !)
What I don't like about that approach anyway is that it leaves it ambiguous what happens when the user put a leading article into a search term... I think yu'd be better off just configuring the system to ignore the most common leading articles as described above.
pro : will work even if the cataloger forget to set the indicator & makes them more and more useless. con : MARC-lover catalogers will hate such a behaviour, because there are few exceptions. I think i can assume the noise french catalogers will make ;-)
It is true that this would require separate configuration for different languages, but you probably wouldn't get around that anyway, since many non-English-speaking countries use other record formats than MARC21, and the use of indicators to control indexing is not universal.. the Danish MARC (cleverly named DANMARC) format, for instance, use a special character inside of the subfields to mark the part which should not be indexed.In what is already developped in Koha 3.0, we will clearly have UNIMARC-french, MARC21-english, and probably other MARC-language flavours. So I agree with you.
Happy new year to everyone, with lot of free software & happiness ! -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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