Z39.50 problems

[Robby Stephenson]

On Saturday 24 February 2007, Karl Håkansson wrote:
> Overall there are much fewer hits when searching
> in Tellico compared to the yaz-client(version
> 2.1-50) . It doesn't seems to be any problems
> using swedish charactars but rather just fewer
> hits.

I think it's a case of Tellico being too picky about what it accepts as 
a "book". It came up once before, and I relaxed the criteria, so to speak, 
but perhaps I should relax them more.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.tellico.general/141

As it stands now, it looks for results that either 
a) include a publisher, or
b) include an isbn, or
c) include a lccn

The easiest thing to do would be to also allow anything that 
defines "typeOfResource" = text. That might produce a few more false 
positives, but that would be preferable to having no results, as you do.

> Tellico but I tried converting the marc21 files
> to mods-format using  the marcxml toolbox
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml//.

And since the problem is in the mods2tellico.xsl file, that has the same 
issue. :)

> Other than that the only thing I've reacted to so
> far is that it isn't possible to do a person-title search. That could be
> handy.

Meaning search on title and person at the same time?

Thanks,
Robby