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Local API for retrieving bibliographic and other useful data from Alma (Ruby 3.2.0, Rails 7.1.3.4)
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New facet: geographic subject #2034

Open escowles opened 1 year ago

escowles commented 1 year ago

Feature request received by DSSG: Add a geographic facet, similar to Subject: Era, based on $z in 6xx fields. This would allow users to limit their results to items ABOUT a place, which is sometimes different than the Place of publication.

escowles commented 1 year ago

DSSG discussion today: some catalogs have geographic subject facets (Cornell, Stanford, and Yale all display a geographic facet), but we're not sure whether they are using 6xx $z or 043 for the data. More investigation is needed to determine what is the best source of data for this facet.

kevinreiss commented 1 year ago

DSSG will investigate and report back.

escowles commented 1 year ago

Different people do it different ways. We'd like to try 6xx $z. Can we index that into a geographic facet in staging to see what the data looks like?

christinach commented 1 year ago

Yes, we will index a data set in bibdata-staging or bibdata-qa.