name and title subject headings should be concatenated

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name and title subject headings should be concatenated #1489

Open theLinkResolver opened 5 years ago

theLinkResolver commented 5 years ago

Describe the bug Some elements of name and title subject headings must logically go together but are currently being displayed as separate searchable elements.

To Reproduce https://search.library.ualberta.ca/catalog/6784731

The text "Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-" should not be broken into parts

https://search.library.ualberta.ca/catalog/824831

The text "Olympic Winter Games (15th : 1988 : Calgary, Alta.)" should not be broken into parts

Expected behavior Certain MARC subfields should be treated as indivisible strings: 600abcdq 610abcdfk 611acdn 630adlnps

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seanluyk commented 5 years ago

Thanks for documenting this, @theLinkResolver. This applies to NEOS BL as well. It looks like the logic to split subject headings isn't sensitive to these differences. Adding in the first example from Stanford, and Cornell. If they've figured out how to deal with this we should borrow their approach

theLinkResolver commented 5 years ago

@seanluyk Agreed - Brian and I did some looking at Stanford and we see evidence that they gave thoughtful consideration to how terms are joined/split.

Also, my apologies that I never noticed these issues when the feature was originally developed - that is on me entirely.

seanluyk commented 5 years ago

@theLinkResolver no need to apologize, we all missed it! I think the good news is that if a user clicks the last string in a series, the search is still correct.