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Don Butterworth (don-butterworth) wrote : Re: [Bug 1371745] Re: Corporate body subject phrase does not displaying in Subject Browse index

Yes. This subject now shows up in our Subject Browse index, and has for a
while now.

However ...

What still does NOT show up is the 810 field in Series Browse. I believe
that the out-of-the-box default Series Browse indexing only includes the
830 field. It should include ALL 8XX fields and, at least, subfields "a"
and "t". Well over a year ago I sent in an extensive list concerning all of
the fields and subfields that I believe are crucial for academic libraries.
This was shortly before a revised set of defaults were implemented, so I
think the assumption was made that those recommendations were already
covered. But there are still indexing gaps.

In our case the 810 is particularly important because all of the Video and
Sound Recordings we create at our institution include an 810 series field.
Example:

810 2\$aAsbury Theological Seminary.$tMartha R. Jones lectureship in
nutrition

In the case of this particular field It is important that *both* the A and
T subfields are indexed so that if a researcher wants to see all of the ATS
series they can, or if all they know is the series title they can find that
as well. Catalog example would look like ...

Series Browse : Asbury Theological Seminary
Asbury Theological Seminary. Forums (35)
Asbury Theological Seminary. Freitas lectures (27)
Asbury Theological Seminary. Martha R. Jones lectureship in nutrition (42)
Asbury Theological Seminary. Ryan lectures (55)

Series Browse: Chapel services
Chapel services, 1956 (2)
Chapel services, 1957 (1)
Chapel services, 1960 (2)
Chapel services, 1961 (3)

One final observation. The subfield "v" should NOT be included in the
Series Browse index. Currently it is, and thereby creates single line
entries for every single record that contains an 830, instead of
accumulating them like in the examples above. Example:

Asbury Theological Seminary. Forums ; no. 1
Asbury Theological Seminary. Forums ; no. 2
Asbury Theological Seminary. Forums ; no. 3
Asbury Theological Seminary. Forums ; no. 4

This creates a pretty much unusable index.

Hoping for a fix,

Don

On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 12:24 PM Jane Sandberg <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I don't think this is still happening in recent versions of Evergreen.
> For example, Catholic Church Uganda History shows up in the Asbury
> Seminary catalog browse, and has 5 results:
>
>
> http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/eg/opac/browse?blimit=10&bterm=Catholic+Church+Uganda+History&qtype=subject&locg=2
>
> Can others confirm that this bug has been fixed?
>
> ** Tags added: browse
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371745
>
> Title:
> Corporate body subject phrase does not displaying in Subject Browse
> index
>
> Status in Evergreen:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> When searching for the subject
> Catholic Church Uganda History
> no results were found using Subject Browse
>
>
> http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/eg/opac/browse?blimit=10&bterm=Catholic+Church+Uganda+History&qtype=title&locg=2
>
> Three entries should have been retrieved using this search command
>
> * Coming of age in priesthood
>
> http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/eg/opac/results?blimit=10;bterm=Coming%20of%20age%20in%20priesthood;qtype=title;locg=2;fi%3Ahas_browse_entry=356974%2C31
>
> * Bannabiikira Sisters celebrate a hundred years of service
>
> http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/eg/opac/record/393997?blimit=10;bterm=Bannabiikira%20Sisters;qtype=title;locg=2;fi%3Ahas_browse_entry=864005%2C31
>
> * Ancestors in the faith : the story of the first Catholic missionaries
>
> http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/eg/opac/record/432287?blimit=10;bterm=Ancestors%20in%20the%20faith%20%3A%20the%20story%20of%20the%20first%20;qtype=title;locg=2;fi%3Ahas_browse_entry=357315%2C31
>
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Don Butterworth
Director of Strategic Collections Services /
Faculty Associate
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
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