The staff meeting Wednesday morning went very well. Aaron, Paula, and Helen presented their plans to merge the acquisitions and cataloging groups into a single unit. Those of us in cataloging will move to new cubes in the acquisitions area of the building by the end of the year. The new unit will be managed as two teams - a monographs team will report to Helen, and Paula will lead the serials and electronic resources team. We all expect our monographs work will continue to shrink over time, but combining acquisitions and cataloging is a good step in streamlining library technical services.
Otherwise I've spent most of the last couple days working on a few patches to the vufind tools. I spent most of the time tracking down the reason why our vufind server does not properly filter connecting diacritics so that a search for vtoriaa finds Russian language records like this. I eventually discovered that vufind's underlying Solr server has a filter system that handles that kind of thing, and that the unicode filter that indexes versions of unicode tokens without diacritics was not properly handling combining halfmark characters. I built an AuUnicodeFilter copy of the unicode filter that just adds a switch-statement block that checks for the combining half marks; problem solved!
No comments:
Post a Comment