Martha Yee said:
"In LCSH, the heading Coots--Food would give you perfect recall and precision for monographs wholly about what coots eat, if there were any. If this society placed a high value on universal employment (which it clearly doesn't), the heading Coots-Food would also bring up journal articles and papers that were wholly about what coots eat."
Why would you want to limit the results of the search to resources "that were wholly about what coots eat"? I'd think you'd be really limiting yourself by only finding materials WHOLLY about what coots eat. I'm sure there are many good sources where you can find excellent info on what coots eat that aren't WHOLLY dedicated to the topic.
And I don't quite understand the reference to "universal employment"??
Bernie Sloan
Martha Yee <myee_at_UCLA.EDU> wrote:
I know this is asking for trouble, but I can't resist sharing my latest
Google adventure with you all. My husband and I were feeding stale bread to
some coots on Echo Park Lake (in a neighborhood park near our house), when I
was suddenly conscience-stricken at the realization that I didn't actually
know if stale bread was good for coots. When I got home, I typed in to
Google's famous search box "what do coots eat?" The reply that came back
was a web site entitled "What do eagles eat?" In the list of eagle edibles
was coots.
In LCSH, the heading Coots--Food would give you perfect recall and precision
for monographs wholly about what coots eat, if there were any. If this
society placed a high value on universal employment (which it clearly
doesn't), the heading Coots-Food would also bring up journal articles and
papers that were wholly about what coots eat. We could even imagine a
future in which correct RDF coding might allow a computer to translate the
heading for a user who couldn't understand LCSH-ese into "food that coots
eat."
Just saying...
Martha
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