[Koha] Title search in KOHA

Mon Sep 25 21:47:35 NZDT 2017

Thanks Karam. You are right. System pulls title from all the occurrences
like tag 245, 505 and probably more when you search for title. That make
sense to include 505 in title search as it deals with table of
contents.Series is also a part of title search.  My issue is to remove
statement of responsibility from the title search. So i think I need to
identify all the statement of responsibility field which is associated to
title in different fields like 245 , 505 etc. and remove them from zebra
indexing. I will test it in our test server and see how it works. Actually
we migrated from Millennium and title search pulls out only those records
with search words in title only (including title, series, table of contents
etc). So users complained about this strange behavior in KOHA.. This is not
only our case , but appear in all KOHA default implementations.

Regards
Nikes

*Nikesh Narayanan *I Systems & e-Librarian I

Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research
<http://www.kustar.ac.ae/>

PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Mobile : +971507097346

On 25 September 2017 at 12:15, Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi ,
>
> I didn't test that before , but I think you need to remove every
> occurrence of the word "TITLE:x" in that mapping file except the one you
> want ( 245a )
>
> after that you need to rebuild your zebra
> <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_the_Debian_packages#koha-rebuild-zebra>index
> ,
>
> ( I'm not really sure that this is all you need to do )  so I don't advice
> you to try that on a production server
>
> as I mentioned to you, your problem is not only in the responsibility
> field ( 245c) it is with every occurrence of "TITLE" index .
> in the example url that I sent to you there is no mention to Shakespeare
> in 245c at all ,
> https://opac.kustar.ac.ae/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?
> biblionumber=32490
>
> 245 1 4 *_a*The machine in the garden :
> *_b*technology and the pastoral ideal in America /
> *_c*Leo Marx.
>
> but in 505 :
> 505 0 0 *_g*I.
> *_t*Sleepy Hollow, 1844 --
> *_g*II.
> *_t*Shakespeare's American Fable --
> *_g*III.
>
>
> and that record was the first result in the search query
> <https://opac.kustar.ac.ae/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=ti&q=shakespeare>you
> suggested .
>
> Best wishes .
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:59 AM, nikesh <nikeshn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Many thanks Karam. I don't know much about Zebra indexing and how it
>> works. But  I have one doubt regarding this.
>>
>> Tag 505 represent formatted content. Actually when we limit to title, it
>> should take only from Tag 245 .
>>
>> Tag 245 indexing are given as follows in the document
>>
>>
>> melm 245$a      Title-cover:w,Title-cover:p,Ti
>> tle-cover:s,Title:w,Title:p,Title:s
>>
>> melm 245$c      Author,Author-in-order:w,Autho
>> r-in-order:p,Author-in-order:s
>>
>> melm 245$9      Cross-Reference:w,Koha-Auth-Number
>>
>>
>>
>> If I remove  245$c  and 245 $9 ,from Zebra indexing, would that solve the
>> issue ?
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>>
>> Nikesh
>>
>>
>>
>> *Nikesh Narayanan *I Systems & e-Librarian I
>>
>> Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research
>> <http://www.kustar.ac.ae/>
>>
>> PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE
>>
>> Mobile : +971507097346 <+971%2050%20709%207346>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24 September 2017 at 20:46, Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nikesh ,
>>> You may check this file for mappings :
>>> https://github.com/Koha-Community/Koha/blob/master/etc/zebra
>>> db/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/recorad.abs
>>>
>>> I've tested some of your results and as I understand from that mapping
>>> the results are correct according to mappings there
>>> for example this record from your results :
>>> https://opac.kustar.ac.ae/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?bi
>>> blionumber=32490
>>> Marc file has :
>>> 505 0 0 *_g*I.
>>> *_t*Sleepy Hollow, 1844 --
>>> *_g*II.
>>> *_t*Shakespeare's American Fable --
>>>
>>> if you checked that mentioned mapping and exactly this line ( for 505t)
>>> :
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Koha-Community/Koha/blob/b4e525e4f6382a421cb7e77632fca8ecaaf8f3d6/etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs#L158
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> you will find it was mapped to title
>>>
>>> Please consider that marc standards has other places that holds title
>>> related field.
>>>
>>> if you believe that some of those mappings were wrong please let the
>>> community know about that .
>>>
>>> *Best wishes *
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:32 PM, nikesh <nikeshn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Author results also appears when I limit my search to title only. I
>>>> think
>>>> it appears because KOHA indexing treats statement of responsibility as
>>>> part
>>>> of title. How can I edit zebra indexing to get rid of that ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Example : I searched for Shakespeare in Title but document with
>>>> Shakespeare
>>>> as an Auhtor also appear in the search result. Please see the link
>>>> below.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://opac.kustar.ac.ae/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=ti
>>>> &q=shakespeare
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Nikesh
>>>>
>>>> *Nikesh Narayanan *I Systems & e-Librarian I
>>>>
>>>> Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research
>>>> <http://www.kustar.ac.ae/>
>>>>
>>>> PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE
>>>>
>>>> Mobile : +971507097346
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Karam Qubsi*
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
> --
> *Karam Qubsi*
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