[Koha] Searching in Arabic

[Jesse Lambertson]

Shukran Karam.

This looks quite promising also.
I will look it over now and talk to one of my local IT people.

Regards,

Jesse

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zeno Tajoli
>> /Dipartimento Sviluppi Innovativi/ - Automazione Biblioteche
>> Email: z.tajoli at cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198
>> *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI)
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> --
> *Karam Qubsi <https://www.linkedin.com/in/kqubsi>*
>
> *Shah Alam , Malaysia . *
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