Stephens, Owen schrieb:
>
> I'm glad we agree :) But I'm not sure this is so quickly dismissed.
> We have several overlapping discussions going on at the moment, but
> there is the question of what the user needs to know to make good use
> of this index browsing. I'd suggest that browse indexes are the not
> the problem - I've seen no evidence that in general the idea of
> browsing a sorted list of terms and choosing one to retrieve all the
> relevant information causes any type of problem.
Others observed endless confusion.
>
> However, browsing a structured thesaurus/authority file/taxonomy -
> call it what you like - is less common or straightforward. What isn't
> clear to me is whether this is about implementation or about the
> nature of structured taxonomies (my guess is that it is a
> combination).
Implementation, it's all about implementation.
You might want to look here:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/lcsh/page.php?urG=|1&urS=railroads
and see how far you get.
Into this LCSH browser, I have now included links to NLA Catalogue,
next to OCLC, Google, Librarything, and others.
Does VuFind know truncation? I couldn't find a hint.
B.Eversberg
Received on Fri Mar 13 2009 - 07:23:20 EDT