Re: [IUG] CJK Diacritics in Millennium

["Gong, Dao Rong" <gongd at mail dot lib dot msu dot edu>]

Hi John,

This could be the missing indexing of 880 fields. The non-Romanized
character searches require special indexing for 880s which will not come
with your regular indexing and you need to acquire it separately. It
enables specially handling of normalization, sorting, keyword treatments
and some other functions.

However, you should be able to perform basic search and retrieval if the
Non-Romanized text is from the regular MARC fields that are already
indexed in your system.

Dao
Libraries, Michigan State University

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Subject: [IUG] CJK Diacritics in Millennium

Hi all,

 

One of my librarians has pointed out that we cannot search for Chinese
records using the actual Chinese characters - we need to use the PinYin
transliteration.

 

My first thought was that this might be an indexing issue - maybe we
need to specify that 880 fields are indexed, and ours aren't.  In
perusing the manual, though, I come up with some contradictory
information.  On one page it says "If your library has acquired the
ability to index diacritics..."  But elsewhere it says simply, "A CJK
record can be retrieved using either CJK or romanized characters."  So,
either you need to "acquire" something, or the system just does it,
depending on the page in the manual you're looking at.  The FAQs on
CSDirect don't have an answer.

 

So I'm throwing this out to the list because I'm likely to get a quick
answer one way or the other:  Is anybody out there in userland able to
search for Chinese records using Chinese characters, and if so, how did
you get it working?

 

John D. Boggs, PLAN Database Manager
Peninsula Library System
2471 Flores Street
San Mateo, CA  94403-2273
(650)571-6799 x3062
boggs at plsinfo dot org <blocked::mailto:boggs at plsinfo dot org> 



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