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From: "Lundgren,Jimmie Harrell" <jimlund_at_UFLIB.UFL.EDU>
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:55:31 -0400
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Browse functionality (was Whose elephant is it, anyway? (the OLE project))
> LCSH search results that redirect users from synonyms to the headings used can be very useful. For example, since I
> catalog a lot of agricultural reports, irrigation is a topic I frequently encounter. Authors use various terms such
> as drip irrigation, microirrigation, trickle irrigation for essentially the same process. A browse subject search for
> drip irrigation displays:
> Drip irrigation
> See: Microirrigation.
Sorry... Why (beside the card catalog tradition) has the user to make an extra click to get to the titles ?
Why not:
Drip irrigation (we prefer "microirrigation", but we see what you mean :-)
and the whole line is a clickable link ?
>
> Users can click on Microirrigation and retrieve the various titles we have in our library about this process,
> including those where the author called it trickle irrigation. It might be difficult for users to think of all the
> synonyms for terms in order to retrieve comprehensively using keyword searches, especially if there are foreign
> language sources that might be of value. A casual user might easily be satisfied with a few titles on the subject,
> but one who requires more complete results might have to work a lot harder or possibly produce inferior scholarship
> due to unrealized poor retrieval.
>
> Jimmie
Dan Matei
PS. I am amazed that the term "recall" did not turn up. So old fashion ?
Received on Thu Mar 12 2009 - 16:14:54 EDT