[Koha-bugs] [Bug 26472] Elasticsearch - ES - Authority record results not ordered correctly due to punctuation marks

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--- Comment #32 from Heather <heather_hernandez at nps.gov> ---
Hi, Aleisha--

I don't think so.  In
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015022080140&view=1up&seq=63  Rule
12 states, "Words connected by a hyphen are always treated as separate words.
This rule applies even when the first part of a hyphenated word is a prefix
that sometimes appears as an integral part of the word. This rule also applies
to compound surnames."  So, yes, "nothing before something," but a hyphen is
treated as "nothing," i.e., a space.  So I agree with Janusz that
"Haendel-Adler, John" should be first in the example.

Most insitutions agree, too, that the order should then be:
Haendel-Adler, John
Haendel, Georg
Haendel Gregory

The Library of Congress Filing Rules go deeply into intricacies...but Koha is a
global community.  In this case, though, I think LC Filing Rules are agreeing
with most institutions worldwide that the order should be:
Haendel-Adler, John
Haendel, Georg
Haendel Gregory

If we go more deeply into the LC Filing Rules, we could come up with examples
that are different based on whether the heading is a surname, a topic, a place,
etc., and which elements of the field we're filing on, but the Rules were
written at a time when the vast majority of libraries had humans filing cards
in different card catalogs:  an author/title catalog, and a different subject
catalog.  We are now in an era when keyword searching returns results from
multiple indexes, and this makes the most sense and agrees with the basic
tenets of common filing rules:
Haendel-Adler, John
Haendel, Georg
Haendel Gregory

Aleisha--shall I test the patch again?

Nick:  I think we're really close!

Cheerio!!!
h2

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