I like this a lot. It seems even to work with authority files, so for example, if I enter chaikovskii it will give me: tchaikovsky, peter ilich, 1840-1893.
When I enter "labor and laboring classes" I get two hits, when I should get "working class" and "labor movement" and maybe some items from the time before the heading changed. But that would be more sophisticated.
Very nice!
Jim Weinheimer
> Casey Bisson wrote:
> > The autocomplete that I implemented in Scriblio searches across title,
> > author, subject (and others), and suggests possible matches in any of
> > them. You can see it here:
> >
> > http://library.plymouth.edu/
> >
> > I've been skeptical of the value of autocomplete (there are a number
> > signs that suggest that it slows down the user experience or leads
> > them to prematurely narrow their searches), but I've been pleased at
> > how it works against library data. I'm especially happy at how it
> > allows users to begin a search without first having to select which
> > field to search.
> >
> > --Casey
> >
> > On Feb 18, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
> >
> >> I thought someone on this list might be interested in this. I now
> >> have a proof of concept running on our staging port of an
> >> autocomplete/live search feature for the opac. You may have seen this
> >> type of feature on sites like Amazon or Zip.ca. It comes back with
> >> different results depending on which search field the user selects
> >> (title, keyword, author, subject, call number). Since there is no
> >> keyword index per se, keyword also uses the title index. The feature
> >> kicks in after the user has typed at least 3 characters.
> >>
> >> I'm curious if anyone knows of other library catalogues that do
> >> something like this. Someone pointed out to me that BiblioCommons has
> >> a feature like this. Does anyone know of others?
> >>
> >> You can try it out here:
> >>
> >> http://search.cambridgelibraries.ca:2082/search
> >>
> >> There is some background info on the feature here:
> >>
> >> http://ex-libris.ca/?p=694
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
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> >> Web Services Librarian
> >> Cambridge Libraries
> >
> >
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