Re: Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

From: Ed Summers <ehs_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:38:42 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:18 PM, LeVan,Ralph <levan_at_oclc.org> wrote:
> That looks more like an old-style index browse than what I'd think of as a suggestion.  You've returned nothing until the user has typed enough characters to restrict the number of index terms to be returned to a rational number.

Yes, that's fair. Although I still think an index browse for LCSH is
minimally useful. What are you using for relevancy ranking in the VIAF
AutoSuggester? Are you ranking based on the number of WorldCat records
that reference a particular name?

//Ed
Received on Mon Dec 07 2009 - 15:40:39 EST