Make the language facet use the language from 008 field only
The 008 is the field we would prefer to use for the language facet and no other field. The 008 only field is consistently used in all our records. We stopped using the 240 fields in bib records, because that caused problems in Vega. The only time we use the 041 is when a title is bilingual. It would be a huge amount of work to update all our bib records. It is complicated how it currently works, and search results are confusing.
Chrysanna Beazley
shared this idea
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Wouter Lavrijsen
commented
For non-English libraries, this is critical to have corrected. The language facet is very important and right now it simply isn't working as it should.
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Ines Fischer
commented
Hi, we in Gothenburg are currently implementing Vega and are also experiencing issues with the language facets (the language is displayed twice) due to MARC subfield 240 |l. Is there any solution in sight? I do not think it is acceptable to remove a correct MARC field simply to make the facets work.
However, we would prefer to keep field 041, and it should be possible to display all languages from bilingual books in the facets. At the moment, only one of the languages appears in the facets. -
Mats Nordstrom
commented
We in Malmö / Sweden concur with this request. For us the 240l causes confusion in Vega with an unknown language in the facets. It´s not really an option for us to strip our bib records of this.
