Andrew Nagy schrieb:
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> At the current moment, you can browse by clicking on the "Browse the Catalog" link in the footer of the page.
> What that does is views the top 10 of a few categories.
That's decidedly not what I was getting at. A true index will show _all_
the entries, and specifically those that are not mainstream.
> Trust me when I say: you do not want to have a list of all of the authors from your catalog. It will be a mile long. :)
>
That's entirely beside the point. I want to see _all_ the entries in the
_vicinity_ of what I enter, be it a name, a title string, or (above all)
a subject term. The vicinity, that's what's important for browsing, it's
what browsing's all about - to find things you were'nt aware of they
existed, or when got the spelling wrong or there are variant spellings.
(No, software can't catch them all for you.)
I suggest you read Thomas Mann's paper and ponder his examples, he puts
things a lot better than I can say it. Esp. about subject headings.
There, a browsable index (a real index showing all the terms there are)
is absolutely indispensable for any catalog worth its salt.
> But VuFind is open source ... it is up to the community to make it better.
>
Then here's a challenge.
B.Eversberg
Received on Sat Jul 21 2007 - 06:15:14 EDT