This is indeed a fascinating and interesting OPAC. After some initial
exploration, one thing that I found to be a little problematic is the
"Similar Items" Function.
While I was looking at the following record:
Chinese economic reform : the impact on security / edited by Gerald
Segal and Richard H. Yang.
Other Authors: Segal, Gerald, | Yang, Richard H.
Published: London ; Routledge, 1996.
Topics: Military readiness - Economic aspects - China. | Defense
industries - China. | National security - China.
Geographic Areas: China - Economic policy - 1976- | China - Foreign
relations - 1976-
And the "similar items" displayed on the right panel are:
A general purpose systolic array architecture using field programmable
gate arrays /
Bilinear signal synthesis in array processing /
1996 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and
Technology : revolutionary developments in phased arrays : 15-18
October 1996, Boston, Massachusetts /
Field-programmable logic and applications : 5th international
workshop, FPL '95, Oxford, United Kingdom, August 29 - September 1,
1995 : proceedings /
A reduced dimension beam-space sidelobe canceller and direction
finding system /
There are some records the "similar items" function seem to work, but
still not very good. For instance, for the record:
Reform without liberalization :
China's National People's Congress and the politics of institutional change /
Kevin J. O'Brien.
Main Author: O'Brien, Kevin J.
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Geographic Areas: China - Politics and government - 1949-
The "similar items" are:
The proximate aim of education;
Liberation : Marines in the recapture of Guam /
American Catholics and social reform : the New Deal years ;
The Italian Renaissance : the origins of intellectual and artistic
change before the Reformation /
Reform and reaction in twentieth century American politics /
What was the similarity algorithm based on?
Thanks!
Rong
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> Sorry for the cross-posting
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Received on Thu Jul 19 2007 - 13:48:03 EDT