Currently, records with incomplete or incorrect language metadata show up as “undetermined” in the Language facet of Scout.

Instead of using the EBSCO default “undetermined”, we intend to describe the language of these records as “English or other.”  Most of the records with incorrect language metadata are in English, so a label that indicates as much makes sense from a usability perspective.

Unfortunately, correcting the metadata for all of these records isn’t practical.  Much of the incomplete or incorrect language metadata originates from vendors; when vendors update their records, any corrections made to these records would be overwritten.  Records from vendors that aren’t updated as frequently will be corrected, as will records representing physical pieces.

Please leave any feedback with regard to this change in the comments section.  This change is scheduled to be submitted to EBSCO on the morning of Friday, May 8^th and is expected to take 1-2 weeks to go into effect.