I like option 2.  It would address the underlying issue the majority (if
not all) of the times I have seen it.



On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Galen Charlton <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Description changed:
>
>   Consider the movie "Blue steel" and the book "Blue" by Danielle Steel.
>   With typical MARC cataloging of these titles and the default seed data
> - for config.biblio_fingerprint, the same bib finger print will be
> + for config.biblio_fingerprint, the same bib fingerprint will be
>   generated: "bluesteel".
>
>   This has the effect of putting both titles on the same metarecord, which
>   would lead to confusing results when doing metarecord searches or using
>   advanced hold options in the public catalog.
>
>   Some ways that this problem could be addressed:
>
> - - change the stock author component of the fingerprint so that it
> includes all words, not just the first word.  This will reduce the chance
> of mismatches, but can also result in cases where minor differences in how
> an author's given names are catalogued
> + - change the stock author component of the fingerprint so that it
> includes all words, not just the first word.  This will reduce the chance
> of mismatches, but can also result in cases where minor differences in how
> an author's given names are catalogued
>   - adjust the fingerprint so that a special separator character is used
> to distinguish between fields contributing to the fingerprint.  That
> special character could be as simple as a space, e.g. "blue steel" would
> mean title=blue, author=steel, as opposed to "bluesteel"  (title normalizes
> to "bluesteel", no individual contributor is cataloged).
>   - solve the general problem of assigning work identifiers
>
>   Option 3 is... ambitious.  I personally have a slight preference for
>   option 2, but option 1 should be considered as well.
>
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> Title:
>   biblio fingerprint should distinguish between elements contributing to
>   the fingerprint
>
> Status in Evergreen:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   Consider the movie "Blue steel" and the book "Blue" by Danielle Steel.
>   With typical MARC cataloging of these titles and the default seed data
>   for config.biblio_fingerprint, the same bib fingerprint will be
>   generated: "bluesteel".
>
>   This has the effect of putting both titles on the same metarecord,
>   which would lead to confusing results when doing metarecord searches
>   or using advanced hold options in the public catalog.
>
>   Some ways that this problem could be addressed:
>
>   - change the stock author component of the fingerprint so that it
> includes all words, not just the first word.  This will reduce the chance
> of mismatches, but can also result in cases where minor differences in how
> an author's given names are catalogued
>   - adjust the fingerprint so that a special separator character is used
> to distinguish between fields contributing to the fingerprint.  That
> special character could be as simple as a space, e.g. "blue steel" would
> mean title=blue, author=steel, as opposed to "bluesteel"  (title normalizes
> to "bluesteel", no individual contributor is cataloged).
>   - solve the general problem of assigning work identifiers
>
>   Option 3 is... ambitious.  I personally have a slight preference for
>   option 2, but option 1 should be considered as well.
>
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