[Evergreen-catalogers] Multilingual searching in the OPAC

Wed Mar 20 18:32:35 EDT 2019

Hi Jane,

Thanks for the clarification. I thought the searches had to use the boolean
search strings and was hoping that wasn't true. I thought the development
would put language as a choice in the advanced search drop-down so that
patrons could construct searches that way.  Doing that would allow users to
enter titles and/or authors or subjects to find bilingual or multilingual
works. For example a teacher looking for bilingual Chinese and English
juvenile fiction.

Janet

Janet Schrader

Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS

67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606

P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801

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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:26 PM Jane Sandberg <sandbej at linnbenton.edu>
wrote:

> Thanks for your interest in multilingual search, Janet!
>
> Unfortunately, the UI on the advanced search screen isn't great.  I agree
> that more patrons will be interested in a boolean AND for that field than a
> boolean OR.  If you know the item_lang(spa)-style syntax, it works really
> well, but that seems like a lot to ask of our patrons!  Maybe there should
> be a launchpad bug to improve the user experience there.
>
> Also, for what it's worth, we found that all the default subfields are a
> little over generous.  We changed the item_lang record attribute to only
> grab from the Lang fixed field, 041$a, 041$d, and 041$e.
>
> Also, here's the announcement that I sent to the catalogers in our
> consortium:
>
> You can now search for bilingual books in the catalog!  For example, here
> is a list of all the books in LBCC's catalog that
> contain both English and Portuguese content:
>
> https://libcat.linnbenton.edu/eg/opac/results?query=item_lang%28por%29+%26%26+item_lang%28eng%29&qtype=keyword&fi%3Asearch_format=book&locg=7&detail_record_view=1
>
> Previously, Evergreen thought that every book was in one -- and only
> one -- language.  You could only search for bilingual materials if you
> did some really special cataloging work (for example, LBCC has been
> manually putting notes in all the records for our multilingual
> materials).  Now, you should be able to pull in records, and Evergreen
> will know *all* the languages that the item is in without any special
> cataloging interventions.
>
> Using this search is a little weird, you have to express the languages
> that you're interested in using strings like so: item_lang(eng)
> item_lang(spa) -- you can string these together until you have the
> exact language combo you're looking for, and then hit search.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>   -Jane
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 2:07 PM Andrea Buntz Neiman <
> abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Janet --
>>
>> I'm on my way out the door but here's the official docs Equinox wrote to
>> accompany this; hope it helps!
>>
>> http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/3.1/_multilingual_search_in_evergreen.html
>>
>> ABN
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:04 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I was asked to test the multilingual searching on our training server,
>>> 3.2.4. I see this is a new feature and there's a bug LP# 1733695. I read
>>> the specs for the development, but am not getting what it is supposed to
>>> do. I can do a search for multiple languages by using the CTRL key to
>>> highlight more than one choice. This is a boolean OR search. Is the
>>> multilingual search supposed to find records with both languages such as
>>> bilingual texts?
>>>
>>> I know I am searching the languages in the 041 field because doing a
>>> search for *black panther boseman* limited to French brings up the
>>> English language DVD that is also dubbed and subtitled in French. If I hold
>>> down the CTRL key and choose French and Chinese I still get the same two
>>> records as we don't have this DVD dubbed or subtitles in Chinese, so the
>>> boolean search is French OR Chinese.
>>>
>>> I think I'm missing something obvious but don't know what.
>>>
>>>
>>> Janet
>>>
>>> PS: At least it isn't those double vision subject headings. 🙂
>>>
>>>
>>> Janet Schrader
>>>
>>> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>>>
>>> 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606
>>>
>>> P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801
>>>
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>>
>>
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