Re: Whose elephant is it, anyway? (the OLE project)

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From: Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_BIBLIO.TU-BS.DE>
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:01:30 +0100
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Whose elephant is it, anyway? (the OLE project)

> OTOH, if indeed a majority in this list agreed "A good catalog needs no
> browsable lists" then that would be a nice result to hand down to OPAC 
> designers.

> 
> B.Eversberg

I raise my both hands in favour of "browse".

I even say more: I would like to see every search "morphing" into a browse. (Now) I see only two ways of doing that:

a) like www.answers.com does: you start typing in the search box and after a few chars. you see the 10 entries in the 
general index sharing the prefix you typed;
b) when a (simple) search is performed, beside the hit list you could see the general index page where your term would 
fit.  This way you could take advatage of collocation also.

Of course, sophistication is possible.

Dan Matei

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