What constitutes 'popularity'? I have a feeling this is a useless sort order for a research collection like ours that doesn't loan out anything. Good old fixed data like name, title, date are what suits our readers best. Elaine On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Mathieu Saby <mathieu.saby@univ-rennes2.fr>wrote:
Hello Could some librairians and vendors tell me if they like the way Koha is sorting facets and facets results, on a UX point of view ?
Currently, - Results for each facets are sorted alphabeticly. - I can't explain the way factets (Authors, Title, Topics...) are sorted, maybe by popularity, but it is not always the same, depending of the request !
If we look at other catalogues, or non library websites (Amazon...), we don't see the same behavior. - Facets sorting does not change in the same catalogue - Facets results are sorted according to popularity (decrescent occurences), or sometime in a predefined order, sometime both, but never alphabeticly. (in amazon.com , Author and Book series are sorted according to popularity order, but Departement and Format facets in a predefined order. cf. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=**nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%** 3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=**game<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=game> in worldcat, Content and Public in a predefined order, and the others by popularity : http://www.worldcat.org/**search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=** proust <http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=proust> )
If you agree, I can make a patch for sorting facets results by popularity (easy to do) and sorting facets according to a defined order (more complicated for me but I will try...).
Regards, M. Saby Rennes 2 University
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