[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to exclude the field 041 value from search by language

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

Hi Eva,

Equinox did the work here & it seems that we missed adding the
documentation to the community docs repository during the run up to 3.1.
Apologies about that!  We'll get that committed shortly.  In the meantime
please see the attached PDF with that documentation.  Configuring the
indexed subfields can be found on page 4.

Best,
Andrea

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:02 PM Jane Sandberg <sandbej at linnbenton.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Eva,
>
> Thanks for the question!  Perhaps you already know this, but you can
> now use Evergreen's boolean operators on the languages.  So, if you
> want to retrieve all your materials that contain English or German (or
> both), but not Czech, you can use this search:
>
> (item_lang(eng) || item_lang(ger)) -item_lang(cze)
>
> Unfortunately, that syntax is not very friendly for students.
>
> I believe you can turn off indexing of the 041$a (or other subfields)
> in Server Administration > MARC Record Attributes.
>
>  -Jane
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:13 AM Cerninakova Eva <cernin at jabok.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to ask whether there is a possibility to exclude the value
> of the field 041 when searching by language in the Evergreen catalog (and
> search only by the value specified in the 008 field).
> >
> > Our students often need literature in German or in English for their
> language lessons. In our previous Evergreen versions they used to search
> English or German materials using language filter in the OPAC. Our
> consortium have upgraded to Evergreen 3.1 this summer. Version 3.1 allows
> combining the searched languages by extracting values from both the 008
> control field and the 041 data field. Unfortunately, this excellent new
> ability has unexpected consequences for searching in our catalog. When
> search query is filtered for example by English language of the item, most
> search results are  in Czech nevertheless. The reason is quite simple: most
> scholarly materials contain resume in English or German (or both), and
> information about language of an existing resume is usually specified in
> the field 041 $b of the bib record. This means, the filtering by language
> is useles for our users at the moment ;-( .
> >
> > Example of the search query  filtered by English language of the item:
> https://knihovna.jabok.cuni.cz/eg/opac/results?bool=and&qtype=title&contains=contains&query=&bool=and&qtype=author&contains=contains&query=&_adv=1&detail_record_view=0&fi%3Aitem_lang=eng&locg=102&pubdate=is&date1=&date2=&sort=
> > Example of the search qurey filtered by German language of the item:
> https://knihovna.jabok.cuni.cz/eg/opac/results?bool=and&qtype=keyword&contains=contains&query=&bool=and&qtype=title&contains=contains&query=&bool=and&qtype=author&contains=contains&query=&_adv=1&detail_record_view=0&fi%3Aitem_lang=ger&locg=102&pubdate=is&date1=&date2=&sort=
> >
> > Is there some setting available, that would exclude the values specified
> in field 041 from the search result when searching by language of the item?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any hint.
> > Eva
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> > ---
> > Mgr. Eva Cerniňáková
> > cernin at jabok.cz
> > Tel. +420 211 222 409
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> > Knihovna Jabok
> > http:/knihovna.jabok.cz
> > Tel.  +420 211 222 410
> > Jabok - Vyšší odborná škola sociálně pedagogická a teologická
> > Salmovská 8, 120 00 Praha 2
> >
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> --
> Jane Sandberg
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Linn-Benton Community College
> sandbej at linnbenton.edu / 541-917-4655
> Pronouns: she/her/hers
>


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Andrea Buntz Neiman
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