Facet sorting by year and author not working

[astrochun]

Recently tried to sort the PPPL results of datasets in Discovery by year and authorship and the results were inconsistent with expectations.

See screenshots:

By year:

By author:

Might be related to the home page show. These items show both describe and dataspace. PPPL content has been migrated, so we may not to worry about the dpsace content

Acceptance criteria:

• [ ] Utilize the new sorting field in the blacklight config may be something like "created_timestamp"

[carolyncole]

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[carolyncole]

@astrochun The way the current Author sort is working is that the authors of the paper are sorted in alphabetical order and then the one earliest in the alphabet is utilized. So for a paper that has "Smith,Jane" as the first author and "Doe, John" as the second author, because Doe is earlier in the alphabet it is utilized for sorting. I would assume that we should really just be sorting by the first author?

[astrochun]

@astrochun The way the current Author sort is working is that the authors of the paper are sorted in alphabetical order and then the one earliest in the alphabet is utilized. So for a paper that has "Smith,Jane" as the first author and "Doe, John" as the second author, because Doe is earlier in the alphabet it is utilized for sorting. I would assume that we should really just be sorting by the first author?

Understood so then why is the example I provided shows Mollen before Gan? There should be some with last name starting in A's.