emory-libraries/librarysearch-enhance

Improve results when clicking on author link in full record display

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When clicking on author link in full record display, different results are produced depending on the way name is recorded in bibliographic record. For example clicking on the strings below would produce two different sets of results, even though it's the same person.
|a Martin, Anthony J., |d 1960- |e author.
|a Martin, Anthony J., |d 1960-

I suspect the exact string match search is executed and propose that only subfields $a,$b,$c,$d are included in the match and all other subfields are ignored.
Please let me know if you need additional information or more examples.

Thank you!

Same as ticket #28 that has many additional examples. Also good example is
Cronan, Todd, author
Cronan, Todd, degree supervisor
Cronan, Todd, contributor

The marc subfields that need to be included in an exact search string for 100s, 700s are below. Everything else can be excluded.
ǂa Personal name
ǂb Numeration
ǂc Titles and other words associated with a name
ǂd Dates associated with a name

We probably also need to look X11 and X30 fields that might have the same issue.

combined w/ related enhancement request 28 and rewritten as issue 1400