Bug 24833

Summary: Field ending punctuation needs to consider abbreviations and exceptions
Product: Koha Reporter: Nick Clemens (kidclamp) <nick>
Component: MARC Authority data supportAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 - low CC: bgkriegel, katrin.fischer, phil
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33100
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=35036
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Attachments: Bug 24883: Add POD entry and remove unused variable

Description Nick Clemens (kidclamp) 2020-03-09 15:36:39 UTC
Bug 24094 made some improvements to reconciling the ending punctuation form the bibliographic record to the authority, however, it still lacks consistency.

From comment 10 on bug 24094:
*If* one wanted to build a list of exceptions of authority punctuation that would need to be kept, here are a few places to start (from an incomplete U.S./Library of Congress perspective):
- etc.
- B.C.
- A.D.
- a period following a single letter (as in an initial)
- Dr.
- Jr.
- Mrs.
- Co.
- Dept.
- Inc.
- hyphen (-)
- closing parenthesis )
- question mark ?
- exclamation point !

If this is the path taken, I strongly recommend this list be expanded to be inclusive of punctuation and abbreviations used in authority records of languages other than American English. It could probably use a few more English exceptions, too.
Comment 1 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel 2020-03-21 12:04:29 UTC
Created attachment 101331 [details] [review]
Bug 24883: Add POD entry and remove unused variable
Comment 2 Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel 2020-03-21 12:09:16 UTC
Comment on attachment 101331 [details] [review]
Bug 24883: Add POD entry and remove unused variable

Sorry, wrong bug.