CJK Indexing Changes in Alma

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Status	IN PROGRESS
Description	Alma as currently configured does not map equivalent characters in CJK languages. A special setting and re-index of the database may address this.
Decision summary
Owning group	RM-CMOS
Approver	Operations Team
Consulted	Campus cataloging staff, East Asian Studies CKG, OT, Discovery OST
Informed	sils-cohort
Decision-making process
Priority	High
Target decision date
Date decided

Recommendation

Impact

Stakeholder group	Impact

Reasoning

Background

See https://uc-sils.atlassian.net/l/cp/0PP83b1Z for background on tickets.

Updates:

Ex Libris enabled the option to to Search in Hangul (Korean) and return results in both Hangul and Hanja in the sandbox, which they indicated will help with the Japanese Kanji and Chinese traditional/simplified issues as well. The change was made in UCLA’s and UCSD’s PSB, as well as the NZ PSB in September 2022. Indexing the sandbox took an extraordinarily long time and also broke some other functionality. ExL has indicated that this would not happen in production.

Campuses have tested the indexing for Chinese and Japanese and are pleased with the results. Korean testing is still pending. Read-only copy of testing spreadsheet

Similar issues with Primo CJK indexing are outside the direct scope of this decision.

Options Considered

	Option 1	Option 2

Questions to consider

Action Log

Action/Point Person	Expected Completion Date	Notes	Status