[Koha-bugs] [Bug 4925] New: Remove Smithsonian as a delivered z39.50 target

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4925

           Summary: Remove Smithsonian as a delivered z39.50 target
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           Product: Koha
           Version: HEAD
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
        AssignedTo: gmcharlt at gmail.com
        ReportedBy: jwagner at ptfs.com
         QAContact: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


I propose to remove Smithsonian Institution as a delivered sample z39.50 target
for several reasons.  Its collection would seem to be of limited utility for
most libraries.  Also, and more important, I spent a long time working with
them on search problems a while back.  Something has changed on their server
which seems to require particular search attributes to be sent as part of the
search.  

As it stands now in Koha, only a raw (keyword) search and an author search will
produce any results.  A title search fails unless it's the full, exact title --
no partial entries.  ISBN/ISSN, subject headings, LC call number, and other
searches all fail even if a known entry is sent.  Koha is using title attr 1=4
for all z39.50 title search, as near as I can tell, and Smithsonian says
they're set to use 44.  Similar for subject -- Koha is set to 21 and
Smithsonian is using 121.  A manual yaz z39.50 search specifying the right
attributes does work on Smithsonian, but changing them would screw up other
z39.50 searches that are now working properly.

Any objections to just removing Smithsonian from the list?

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