[Koha] Searching in Arabic

Sat Nov 14 03:27:31 NZDT 2015

Thank you David et al,.

I am looking over what you suggested with my colleague.
We will also need to talk with one of our other support people about this
again.

I am actually excited to be working this out (yes, it'll take time, but
that's life).

I really appreciate your time everyone.

Regards,

Jesse

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:44 PM, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
wrote:

> Just fixing the subject line to aid people in discovering my response...
>
> See my real reply below.
>
> David Cook
> Systems Librarian
> Prosentient Systems
> 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Cook [mailto:dcook at prosentient.com.au]
> > Sent: Friday, 13 November 2015 9:44 AM
> > To: 'koha at lists.katipo.co.nz' <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > Cc: 'Tajoli Zeno' <z.tajoli at cineca.it>; 'jlambertson at sqcc.org'
> > <jlambertson at sqcc.org>
> > Subject: RE: Koha Digest, Vol 121, Issue 18
> >
> > Hi Jesse:
> >
> > I've read the response from yourself and others, and I agree with Zeno
> that it
> > would be wise to open a bug on http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/
> .
> >
> > The reason the keyword searching works is because all text nodes in a
> MARC
> > record are indexed in the "Any" (ie Keyword) index. The 880 field itself
> gets
> > no special handling in the current version of
> biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl, which
> > is why searching indexes other than Keyword doesn't work when you're
> > searching for Arabic text stored in the 880.
> >
> > In my opinion, an elegant solution could theoretically be achieved by
> > something like the following:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="marc:datafield[@tag='880']">
> >       <xsl:variable name="linkage"
> > select="substring(marc:subfield[@code='6']",1,3)"/><!-- linkage might
> > contain something like 245 or 260 or 100 -->
> >       <xsl:call-template name="$linkage" />
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > However, we don't current use named templates in biblio-zebra-
> > indexdefs.xsl, so that's not possible at the moment. The above is just a
> > hypothetical suggestion that would be easier to maintain and extend.
> >
> > Glancing at http://bugs.koha-
> > community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14217, you might try something
> > like the following in biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml in Koha 3.22:
> >
> >   <index_subfields tag="880" subfields="a"
> > condition="substring(marc:subfield[@code='6']",1,3) = 245">
> >     <target_index>Title-cover:w</target_index>
> >     <target_index>Title-cover:p</target_index>
> >     <target_index>Title-cover:s</target_index>
> >     <target_index>Title:w</target_index>
> >     <target_index>Title:p</target_index>
> >     <target_index>Title:s</target_index>
> >   </index_subfields>
> >
> > Unfortunately, this convention requires you to make a block for every
> index
> > linkage you need. That is, you'll need to do the same for 245, 260, 100,
> etc.
> > It'll also be more difficult to maintain in the long-run, so it would be
> wise to
> > locate the 880 near its linked field in the biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml
> file, so as
> > to prevent deviations between how the fields are indexed.
> >
> > Of course, since you're probably only trying to provide access to a
> handful of
> > commonly used fields, this shouldn't be too laborious of a process.
> >
> > It is possible to fix your situation one way or another, Jesse. XSLT is
> powerful
> > and DOM indexing is quite flexible as a result.
> >
> > David Cook
> > Systems Librarian
> > Prosentient Systems
> > 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:05:48 +0100
> > > From: Tajoli Zeno <z.tajoli at cineca.it>
> > > To: Jesse Lambertson <jlambertson at sqcc.org>
> > > Cc: "koha at lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > > Subject: Re: [Koha] Searching in Arabic
> > > Message-ID: <5644AACC.5020607 at cineca.it>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> > >
> > > 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)
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
>

-- 
Jesse A Lambertson
Librarian
Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center <http://www.sqcc.org/>

Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104
jlambertson at sqcc.org
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