What constitutes 'popularity'? I have a feeling this is a useless sort order for a research collection like ours that doesn't loan out anything. Good old fixed data like name, title, date are what suits our readers best. Elaine
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Mathieu Saby <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello > Could some librairians and vendors tell me if they like the way Koha is > sorting facets and facets results, on a UX point of view ? > > Currently, > - Results for each facets are sorted alphabeticly. > - I can't explain the way factets (Authors, Title, Topics...) are sorted, > maybe by popularity, but it is not always the same, depending of the > request ! > > If we look at other catalogues, or non library websites (Amazon...), we > don't see the same behavior. > - Facets sorting does not change in the same catalogue > - Facets results are sorted according to popularity (decrescent > occurences), or sometime in a predefined order, sometime both, but never > alphabeticly. > (in amazon.com , Author and Book series are sorted according to > popularity order, but Departement and Format facets in a predefined order. > cf. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=**nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%** > 3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=**game<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=game> > in worldcat, Content and Public in a predefined order, and the others by > popularity : http://www.worldcat.org/**search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=** > proust <http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=proust> ) > > If you agree, I can make a patch for sorting facets results by popularity > (easy to do) and sorting facets according to a defined order (more > complicated for me but I will try...). > > Regards, > M. Saby > Rennes 2 University > > > -- > Mathieu Saby > Service d'Informatique Documentaire > Service Commun de Documentation > Université Rennes 2 > Téléphone : 02 99 14 12 65 > Courriel : [email protected] > > ______________________________**_________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/**mailman/listinfo/koha<http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha> > -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
