DSpace 9.2 - Leading Articles in Browse Title Sorting

[Mike Schouten]

Salutations!

I'm in the process of updating our DSpace 7.6 repository to DSpace 9.2.  We've noticed that in the new version, the Browse Title page is no longer ignoring leading articles like "A" or "The" when sorting titles.  I seem to recall that all we needed to do in 7.6 was mark the title as having a language of "en" and Solr knew what to do, but in the new version that's not happening any more.

Is there a way to restore that behavior in DSpace 9.2?

Michael Schouten

MacEwan University Library

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Michael!

It looks like this bug fix ticket (part of DSpace 9.2 release) was likely what caused this change in the Browse by Title behavior.  As context, there's a lot of commentary in the ticket about the reasoning for the change.  

There's not currently a way to configure that behavior that I know of (besides rolling back that code manually) - but if you would like to request more configurability for this feature or restart a discussion around it, you are welcome to submit an issue. 

Best,

Lia

[Mike Schouten]

Thanks Lia!  I completely missed that bug report.  The logic is sound and I can replicate the problem this bug fix corrected in our current DSpace instance.  As such, I suspect we’ll accept the behavior in 9.2 as is… or at the very least, that’s what I’ll push for.

 

Michael Schouten

Library Information Technology

MacEwan University

scho...@macewan.ca

 

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