[Koha-devel] Re: Requested feature (biblio title order)

[Paul POULAIN]

Stephen Hedges a écrit :
> Excellent point, Ambrose!  And it seems like it shouldn't really be that
> hard, since that subfield indicator is stored in the marc_subfield_table
> as the second character in the tag_indicator column.  Once you have a list
> of biblionumbers returned by Search.pm, you could check them against that
> column to see if any leading characters in the title need to be skipped.

Yes, but it has the default of being MARC=ON specific, and requires a 
cataloguer that speaks MARC really good. I think i'll try to find a 
solution that calculates the "title for order" automatically, unless the 
indicator has been typed by the librarian, in which case Koha will use it.

> This solution has the great advantage of leaving control of the title
> order in the hands of the catalogers.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> Ambrose LI said:
> 
>>In article <41E78307.8060006 at free.fr> you write:
>>
>>>In 2.2, when you order a search by title, stopwords at the beginning are
>>>still used in the ordering.
>>>"A simple software" will be ordered before "The last minute".
>>>In France (& I think in other countries it's the same), we are supposed
>>>to have "A" and "The" ignored at the beginning of the title having
>>>"(A) simple software" after "(the) last minute".
>>
>>The "pedantically correct" way to do this would be to encode the number
>>of characters to skip in the second indicator field in the MARC record.
>>In traditional MARC-based systems, this second indicator field is used
>>to control how many characters to skip when sorting.
>>
>>The advantage of this is that sometimes words like "A" and "The" should
>>not be ignored (e.g. if the library has multilingual collections and
>>the title in question happens to be in a language where "the" is a
>>real and very important word).
>>
>>The disadvantage of this is firstly of course Koha does not support
>>indicators, and most likely the semantics of such skipping may need
>>to be more concretely defined (e.g., what to do when the title begins
>>with non-ASCII Unicode characters) before it can be useful, and lastly
>>this is much more work :-(


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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)