Andrew Nagy writes:
>
> I think browsing is very important and I want VUFind to be able to have an equally powerful browsing component complimentary to the searching component.
> The browsing is just really tough to do really well.
>
But not impossible. There is, for example, a very efficient ctree tool
for building and real-time management of binary trees.
Look at this implementation to see a name index:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/vk/page.php?urG=PER&urA=18&urS=_clemens,+sam
Enter some other name to see what happens.
The database has 15m records.
You can switch to other indexes:
Title beginnings
Title keywords
Series titles
and a few more.
The interface is only partly English. This catalog is used in many
German libraries to find titles for retro conversion.
Here, it serves _only_ to show what I mean by "browsable index",
and to show how it can work. The large catalogs here all have
indexes for browsing, not looking exactly like this one.
Here's one with an English interface:
http://gso.gbv.de/LNG=EN/DB=2.1/
Switch from "search (and)" to "browse" (upper left) to see what I mean.
This catalog is even larger, it has the combined holdings of libraries
in northern Germany.
B. Eversberg
Received on Tue Jul 24 2007 - 07:22:18 EDT