We are using Koha version 3.01.00.037 with LibLime Enterprise Koha build: 4.0000010. We have QueryFuzzy, QueryStemming and QueryAutoTruncate all set to OFF but the truncation still seems to be happening in every search. Is there another setting to suppress trunction of search terms that I may be missing? Also, title searches seem to be searching the MARC 505 notes field, which includes the titles of each chapter, rather than the title for the work as a whole. Is this a behavior that can be altered? In most library catalog systems, a title search does not search in the table of contents/notes fields. Examples: A title search for: will of god brings up records which do not have either the word will nor the word god in the record. "No Other Book" <http://man.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=179462> which has William and Goddess in the notes fields. and "A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan" <http://man.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=208020> I hope that this is an issue someone on this list can help me with, as I have been unable to get an answer from LibLime after multiple inquiries. -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober@manhattan.edu
Stacy Pober a écrit :
We are using Koha version 3.01.00.037 with LibLime Enterprise Koha build: 4.0000010.
Hi Stacy,
We have QueryFuzzy, QueryStemming and QueryAutoTruncate all set to OFF but the truncation still seems to be happening in every search. You must know that LEK is not Koha : it's a unreleased fork of the official Koha. In official Koha, afaik, the problem you describe does not exist (someone else on this list may have experimented your problem. I'm a UNIMARC guy, you're a MARC21 library, maybe there's a difference on some internals, but I don't think so) Isthere another setting to suppress trunction of search terms that I may be missing?
No (in official Koha, dunno for LEK)
Also, title searches seem to be searching the MARC 505 notes field, which includes the titles of each chapter, rather than the title for the work as a whole. Is this a behavior that can be altered? In most library catalog systems, a title search does not search in the table of contents/notes fields.
I confirm, and it's the behaviour of official Koha. You can look this file : http://git.biblibre.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=koha;a=blob_plain;f=etc/zebradb... (it's the MARC21 indexes definition file from developpers repository) the line melm 505$t Title means the 505$t is indexed as a title That can be changed, but not by the library, just by the techie guy (LL I suspect). Once it's done, zebra must be reindexed (byt the techie guy as well) -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
Thank you for your immediate and helpful response. You wrote:
You must know that LEK is not Koha : it's a unreleased fork of the official Koha.
Trust me, I know, I know. When we talked about changing to Koha, I was looking forward to having a user community to help with problems. It's interesting that I got an immediate answer from my questions to this list. This was not the first place I asked, but I'm very frustrated with the lack of response from the vendor. Most of my direct emails to LibLime staff and to their support list have gone unanswered. Thanks again. Can anyone from a MARC 21 library tell me if truncation issue is happening with their Koha catalog? Stacy On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote:
Stacy Pober a écrit :
We are using Koha version 3.01.00.037 with LibLime Enterprise Koha build: 4.0000010.
Hi Stacy,
We have QueryFuzzy, QueryStemming and QueryAutoTruncate all set to OFF but the truncation still seems to be happening in every search.
You must know that LEK is not Koha : it's a unreleased fork of the official Koha. In official Koha, afaik, the problem you describe does not exist (someone else on this list may have experimented your problem. I'm a UNIMARC guy, you're a MARC21 library, maybe there's a difference on some internals, but I don't think so)
Isthere another setting to suppress trunction of search terms that I may be missing?
No (in official Koha, dunno for LEK)
Also, title searches seem to be searching the MARC 505 notes field, which includes the titles of each chapter, rather than the title for the work as a whole. Is this a behavior that can be altered? In most library catalog systems, a title search does not search in the table of contents/notes fields.
I confirm, and it's the behaviour of official Koha. You can look this file : http://git.biblibre.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=koha;a=blob_plain;f=etc/zebradb... (it's the MARC21 indexes definition file from developpers repository)
the line
melm 505$t Title
means the 505$t is indexed as a title
That can be changed, but not by the library, just by the techie guy (LL I suspect). Once it's done, zebra must be reindexed (byt the techie guy as well)
-- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
-- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober@manhattan.edu
2009/12/3 Stacy Pober <stacy.pober@manhattan.edu>:
Thank you for your immediate and helpful response.
You wrote:
You must know that LEK is not Koha : it's a unreleased fork of the official Koha.
Trust me, I know, I know. When we talked about changing to Koha, I was looking forward to having a user community to help with problems.
It's interesting that I got an immediate answer from my questions to this list. This was not the first place I asked, but I'm very frustrated with the lack of response from the vendor. Most of my direct emails to LibLime staff and to their support list have gone unanswered.
Thanks again. Can anyone from a MARC 21 library tell me if truncation issue is happening with their Koha catalog?
It doesn't appear to be happening in my test system. But like Paul, I am running Koha .. so you probably need another LEK library to test for you sorry ;( Chris
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