Re: New uses of subjects, authorities, etc.

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:46:49 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

> What if when the user does a keyword search, they get, along with their 
> search results, a list of authorized (eg) names that also matched their 
> query, that they can choose to 'drill down' into if they want?

This is what my prototype Name Finder and Subject Finder applications do, as described in the most recent issue of Code4Lib Journal, and demonstrated rudimentarily in the Name Finder and Term Finder applications. I believe Damian Katz has explored putting these sorts of features into VUFind.

[1] Journal - http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2481
[2] Name Finder - http://zoia.library.nd.edu/sandbox/name-finder/
[3] Term Finder - http://zoia.library.nd.edu/sandbox/term-finder/

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Eric Morgan
Received on Wed Apr 28 2010 - 13:52:08 EDT