[Koha-bugs] [Bug 14567] Browse interface for OPAC

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14567

--- Comment #11 from Heather <heather_hernandez at nps.gov> ---
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #10)
> I was thinking this morning, maybe a 'starts with' search option could help
> to bring the result list a little closer to an alphabetic index. Could this
> be an option?

It sounds to me like it could be an option, if the results were an alphabetic
list of terms from the searched index, rather than a list of records.

> I have asked some of the coworkers to give the search a test, but some of
> the results are quite confusing. 
> 
> Example: Exact, Author: Miller
> The first result shown is "Millard, Annie". 
> I didn't expect that for the exact search option, but only with fuzzy
> activated.

It sounds like your "exact" is kind of "fuzzy!"

> Another issue could be related to ISBD punctuation in the fields. Often
> there are 2 entries which what seems to be the same author, only different
> by a . at the end:
> 
> Example: Exact, Author: Smith
> Smith, Alexander Gordon.
> Smith, Alexander Gordon
> Smith, Jim
> Smith, Jim.
> 
> Would be good if those could be merged for display and search.

Could this also be an issue of variations in the headings' $q fields, which
Koha tends to not display in search results, and when used there's no
punctuation between the end of the $a and the beginning of the $q subfields? 
In your example, above, the headings could be for different people, and so
should not be merged, e.g., could be:
100 1_ Smith, Alexander Gordon.
100 1_ Smith, Alexander Gordon $q (Alexander Gordon Frank)
100 1_ Smith, Jim $q (James Allen)
100 1_ Smith, Jim.

(The headings' variations are most likely the result of GIGO, & so proper
authority control would collate them.)
--h2

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