[Koha] Searching in Arabic

[Karam Qubsi]

Hi ,
This is a good step by steep reference about adding new Marc fields to
zebra index with koha .
I hope it will help / by Ashraf Brzy   .
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHuoX_AeLkWK_0FEkWhCvpoTCWO7AcNG5355DIZ_7QA/edit

for handling old books there is  a similar case to use other fields in
indexing you can check this wiki page :
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_and_old_books#Pros_and_cons

Regards ...




On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Tajoli Zeno <z.tajoli at cineca.it> wrote:

> Hi Jesse,
>
>
> Il 12/11/2015 15:16, Jesse Lambertson ha scritto:
>
>> I think this is because 880 is not in the default indexing list.
>> It seems to me that associated linked 880 fields for title (245), author(
>> 100 and 700) as well as series (490 and 830) should return results
>> searched
>> in Arabic as long as we add 880 to the list.
>>
>> Am I incorrect in that assumption?
>>
>
> No, sorry.
> You assumption is correct.
> You need to change the default indexing setup to index your 880 that are
> probably like:
> 880 10$6245-01/(3/r$a[Arabic chars]
>
> I suggest you to open a bug here:
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/
> with description of the problem and 10-20 records from your catalogue to
> do test.
>
> Do you want to try to fix your self ?
> Well, you need to understand how indexing works with Zebra.
>
> Start on chapter 13 of the manual:
> http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/3.20/en/searching.html
>
> Read the basic on Zebra documentation:
> http://www.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/record-model-domxml.html
> (Tip: configuration language of the files is XSLT, so you need to learn a
> basic of it).
>
> The 3 basic files are:
> etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml
> etc/zebradb/xsl/koha-indexdefs-to-zebra.xsl
> etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl
>
> The real working file is biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl
> In its head you can read:
> <!--
> This file has been automatically generated from a Koha index definition
> file with the stylesheet koha-indexdefs-to-zebra.xsl. Do not manually edit
> this file,as it may be overwritten. To regenerate, edit the appropriate
> Koha index definition file (probably something like
> {biblio,authority}-koha-indexdefs.xml) and run: `xsltproc
> koha-indexdefs-to-zebra.xsl {biblio,authority}-koha-indexdefs.xml >
> {biblio,authority}-zebra-indexdefs.xsl` (substituting the appropriate file
> names).
> -->
>
> You probaly need to backport this fix from master to 3.20:
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14217
>
> and insert many condition in biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml about 880 with
> specific values in $6
>
> Not an easy work.
>
> Bye
> Zeno Tajoli
>
>
>
>
>
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