Publications list - alpha order problem

[KraigBinkowski]

The publications list display which is supposed to be in alphabetical order by author’s last name, has errors in the ordering. Books with no named author in the constituent field of the bib module are defaulting to some other field for ordering. This default should be to title if no Author is present. I have attached an example – B1985.10.1, Clausen’s Schoolgirls.
Publications:

Susan P. Casteras, Images of Victorian womanhood in English art, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford, NJ, 1987, p. 45, fig. 24, N6767.5 V52 C37 11987 + (YCBA) Christie's Sale Catalogue: Important British and Irish art : 11 June 2003, Christie's, Christie's (UK), London, 2003, p. 75, Lot 10, fig. 2, Sales Catalogues (YCBA) Jay A. Clarke, Becoming Edvard Munch, influence, anxiety, and myth, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Art Institute of Chicago New Haven, CT, 2009, p. 41, fig. 42, NJ18 M96 C53 2009 (HAAS) Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden, paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, pp. 155, 168, no. 69, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) Kenneth McConkey, George Clausen and the picture of English rural life, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2012, pp. 6 (color detail), 35, 36, 37, fig. 40, NJ18.C5652 M33 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Artist as narrator, nineteenth century narrative art in England and France., Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, 2005, p.50, fig. 14, ND1452 G7 A77 2005 + (YCBA) Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 8, 9, 12, no. 6, col. pl. 12, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Eric Shanes, Impressionist London, Abbeville Press, New York, 1994, p. 66, no. 49, ND470 S52 1994 + (YCBA) Denys Sutton, The Sale-Room, Apollo, vol. 122, August 1985, p. 165, N1 A54 122:1 OVERSIZE Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 8, 9, 12, no. 6, col. pl. 12, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Figuring women, the female in modern British art., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, pp. 8-9, V 1925 (YCBA) Sotheby's sale catalogue : British Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture : 15 May 1985, Sotheby's, London, May 15, 1985, Lot 51, fig. 51, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) , unbound catalogue What Makes the Thinker Think, Country Life, v. 178, July, 1985, p. 24, fig. 1, S3 C68 + (YCBA)

[yulgit1]

@KraigBinkowski initially raised this issue 5/20, with group discussion 5/21

Seems to be an issue with coboat logic

Pub sorting now - Alpha Sort (AS) seems to be a sorted instance of displayActorInRole (dAIR) AS/dAIR is usually the author AS/dAIR is sometimes Publisher - ex Oklahoma City Museum of Art AS/dAIR is sometimes missing->Unknown->blacklight sorts to end

resolution? AS/dAIR needs to be title when not author (semantically odd) question keep dAIR = publisher while AS = title ? unknown should be finding the title (ex. Sotheby’s, Country Life) As/dAIR as publisher should almost never occur

[edgartdata]

for @edgartdata to work out with David Parsell.

[edgartdata]

@KraigBinkowski A few questions for you following up on this:

• Are you suggesting that when there is no named author, the citation should not sort on the name of the publisher (which it is doing now) but on the title?

• Even if the names of publishers are not used for any kind of sorting in BL, I assume we should still keep them in the BL citations?

• Should we keep the citations that are alphabetically sorted by title among the ones alphabetically sorted by the names of authors?

[edgartdata]

1. yes
2. yes keep publishers in citations, not in sorting logic
3. yes keep them within the other citations

@edgartdata to work on this David to change the sorting logic in COBOAT

[edgartdata]

https://github.com/ycba-cia/TMS/issues/16