[Koha] Excluding fields from the OPAC search

[Elaine Bradtke]

Sometimes you really do need human readable non-public information.
Especially if you have a collection like ours, with a lot of unique
material, stashed all over the building. We have information the staff
needs that we don't necessarily want publicly available.  For instance,
locations of rare and valuable material.  Though our OPAC says 'storage'
for these, if you know what to search for they will come up in a keyword
search.
Non public notes and the ability to really obscure certain things in the
OPAC are in MARC for a reason, it can be a security issue.

I would be interested to know if this is also happening with
elasticsearch.  We haven't made the switch, but if elasticsearch does the
right thing in this respect, it would be worth it to change over.

Elaine
VWML <https://vwml.org>



On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 4:18 AM Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> unfortunately the problem is a bit more complicated. :(
>
> I think since our switch from grs-1 to dom indexing, the kw index
> includes the whole record, where before that switch it was 'everything
> that is indexed'. So changing the configuration of individual
> fields/indexes won't make a difference. See:
>
> *Bug 15050*
> <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15050> -
> Nonpublic note searchable from OPAC
>
> I am not sure if this is solved already with Elasticsearch.
>
> Some things you could do to avoid issues is linking 952$e to a vendor
> record using the id. I've been thinking it would be nice if we had a
> value builder to do this for a while. If you add items from acquisition
> it will also fill source of acquisition with the id, so that would make
> things more consistent.
>
> For internal notes I think a good rule of thumb would be to avoid using
> personal names whenever possible. For some use cases internally agreed
> on codes or the cardnumber might work. Having a separate feature for
> adding notes that don't end up in the MARC records (and possible
> exports, OAI etc.) might be a good idea anyway.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Katrin
>
> On 06.10.21 13:04, Owen Leonard wrote:
> >> (e. g.
> >> MARC 952$e the source of acquisition, or MARC 952$x the non-public note)
> > If these are indexed by default I think that should be considered a bug.
> >
> >   -- Owen
> >
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