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From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:24:19 -0800
>
> Order is complicated in LCSH (as is everything else ;-)). In a given
> heading, the order that the subfields are written in the MARC record
> is the order that must be retained. In some cases, changing the order
> actually changes the meaning of the heading. HOWEVER, the order does
> not give you the facet type. So in some faceted systems, you have a
> fixed number of facets and they are always in the same order:
>
> topic / place / time / genre (or something like that)
Some facets are not properties of the topic, but of the indexed resources.
In the card catalogue time, it made sense (to me) to coordinate a topic with a genre (say). But now ? I would prefer
(at browsing) to select a topic and then the system to offer me a faceted browsing on genres.
For instance, not:
>
> $aInternational Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture$n(1st
> :$d1935 :$cParis, France)$vFiction.
but:
International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture$n(1st :$d1935 :$cParis, France)
Fiction: n1
History: n2
etc.: n3
Dan
Received on Tue Nov 03 2009 - 15:15:11 EST