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From: | Sebastian Hammer |
Subject: | Re: [Koha-zebra] Zebra and non-filing characters |
Date: | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:19:35 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) |
Joshua Ferraro wrote:
You mean using an indicator in the field to determine how many characters to skip? To the best of my knowledge, this is not supported at present, sorry.Hello everyone, This is just generic question regarding Zebra's handling of MARC non-filing characters. I know there is a 'stopwords'-like function available using the 'map' directive: map (^The\s) @ but I'm wondering whether Zebra is also capable of examining the non-filing character specs within each MARC field to decide whether to index or not to index ...
What I don't like about that approach anyway is that it leaves it ambiguous what happens when the user put a leading article into a search term... I think yu'd be better off just configuring the system to ignore the most common leading articles as described above.
It is true that this would require separate configuration for different languages, but you probably wouldn't get around that anyway, since many non-English-speaking countries use other record formats than MARC21, and the use of indicators to control indexing is not universal.. the Danish MARC (cleverly named DANMARC) format, for instance, use a special character inside of the subfields to mark the part which should not be indexed.
--Sebastian
Cheers,
-- Sebastian Hammer, Index Data address@hidden www.indexdata.com Ph: (603) 209-6853
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