From a820163ae3a3cd55a4e79f1260ddf28b4358cfe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Rylander Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:48:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Add release note for multilingual search Signed-off-by: Mike Rylander Signed-off-by: Kathy Lussier --- .../OPAC/multilingual_search.adoc | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT/OPAC/multilingual_search.adoc diff --git a/docs/RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT/OPAC/multilingual_search.adoc b/docs/RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT/OPAC/multilingual_search.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..425654f05f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT/OPAC/multilingual_search.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Multi-source Attributes +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +We now allow record attribute definitions to extract data using more than +one strategy (XPath, tag+subfield, fixed field, etc) as long as the values +from various sources would, after normalization, have the same shape. + +Multilingual Search ++++++++++++++++++++ +This change allows us to configure multilingual search, by extracting values +from both the 008 controlfield and the 041 datafield. Because the values +in each can be normalized to the same controlled list (and, in practice, are +already from the same normalized value set), OPAC searches can now use normal +boolean search semantics to find records with various combinations of +language attributes. + +Eg., in the concerto test data: keyword: piano item_lang(eng) item_lang(ita) + -- 2.43.2