Doran, Michael D wrote in part:
>> Let's say I use your advanced search and type in Spanish civil war,
>> as a phrase, in subjects. I get nothing.
>
> If the intention was to make *my* point, then that has been accomplished.
> The exact search (a phrase search for "Spanish civil war" [1]) that
> returned 120 relevance ranked hits in the default basic search interface
> *fails* in the advanced subject search, precisely because the user
> doesn't know the secret handshake of Library of Congress Subject Heading
> syntax.
I have an indexing question on this part of the conversation. The LC
authority record for "Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939" includes a 450
"Spanish Civil War, Spain, 1936-1939". Is the system indexing these
non-authorized forms of headings and thus making them available in the
advanced subject search (as a phrase and individual keywords)? If so, must
an advanced subject phrase search include the entire string to make a
match?
Received on Sat Jul 28 2007 - 14:41:03 EDT