[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: Series searching

[Dan Scott]

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 10:02 -0400, Hardy, Elaine wrote:
> It is searchable as a keyword, but I am not certain that it is indexed
> as a series search. We had a question about it recently with the
> changes in 440/490/8xx fields and if I recall correctly, the 490
> doesn't retrieve in a series search, regardless of the indicator. (I
> don't think it does in OCLC either). The series indexing may be
> locally configurable. Title searches are. 

Series indexing is indeed locally configurable[1]. The default series
indexing in 1.6.0 uses the MODS32 transform of the MARCXML record to
define what to index for a series:

http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/branches/rel_1_6_0/Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/950.data.seed-values.sql#L14

If I then read the MARC21slim2MODS32.xsl stylesheet
(http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/branches/rel_1_6_0/Open-ILS/xsl/MARC21slim2MODS32.xsl) correctly, it defines series via the 440, 490 (if indicator 1 = 0), 760 $t, 762 $t, 800, 810, 811, and 830 fields.

So to answer your question, if the 490 field has an indicator 1 of 0,
then it should be indexed in the series index.

1.
http://coffeecode.net/archives/217-More-granular-identifier-indexes-for-your-Evergreen-SRU-Z39.50-servers.html contains a mostly-accurate introduction to tweaking the indexes of your Evergreen system.