Jacobs, Jane W wrote:
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> Basic Keyword search in Bibliographic records +
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> Keyword search in Type z (authority) records fields 1XX & 4XX ->
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> if a hit occurs grab the 1XX and perform appropriate keyword search
> (i.e. author keyword, title keyword, etc.) on it and add to result set.
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We had something like this in the MELVYL system of years ago although we
added the keywords from the authority 4xx fields to the keyword index
for the name in the 1xx. It was fairly simple from a systems point of
view, but led to some oddities in search, in particular due to
unexpected combinations. The worst was the one we called 'the haunting
of Lauran Paine.' This wouldn't be so bad today since the 4xx's in that
authority record have been changed to 5xx's under AACR2 (so, see, it did
accomplish something good). Paine has written under about 50 different
pseudonyms, each chosen to meet the genre of the work. So there is
everything from Antoinette Duchesne and Arthur St. George (period
romances, I presume) to Hunter Liggett and Buck Thompson (the cowboy
books). Pretty much no matter what name you searched on (Hunter S.
Thompson, Angela Davis, to name a few) pulled up all of the works of
Lauran Paine. So my advice is that it would be better to find a way to
index each name separately to minimize the false hits.
The hardest part is that users don't see the switch happen -- they don't
know why records are being retrieved that don't have their keywords in
them anywhere. I imagine that many users don't pay attention to this,
but it is confusing.
kc
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