> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Fenton
> Sent: 27 June, 2006 11:02
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Are "good enough" standards ok?
>
> Another problem I have with current OPACs that when you click
> on a subject heading tracing, you only get items with exactly
> that heading.
> For example, you find an item on Rarotonga doing a title KW
> search, and it has the SH "Rarotonga (Cook Islands) --
> Guidebooks". You click on that and just get those items. I'd
> like the facility to be able to go directly from that to all
> items with "Rarotonga" in their SHs:
It seems like just indexing subfield-a in the 1XX should be
all that is needed. We have implemented what you suggested
in recent a research project. It is convenient. We had some
difficulty figuring out what to call it. We ended up with
the wording: "Search vocabulary for main term".
Andy.
Received on Tue Jun 27 2006 - 13:21:58 EDT