Re: New uses of subjects, authorities, etc.

From: Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:01:38 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Interesting -- I was thinking recommendations from your actual local 
corpus, but from Identities/Terminologies might be even better -- but is 
there any way for the system to pre-warn you whether that particular 
Author or Term is actually found in the local corpus, to prevent you 
from clicking on it and getting 0 hits?

Demian Katz wrote:
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Yes, you can play with some crude VuFind demos here:
>
> http://vufind.org/demo_trunk/
>
> Doing an author search will give you recommendations from Identities, and doing a subject search will give you recommendations from Terminologies.  I don't claim that the interface is very pretty, and the terminologies results are sometimes rather weird due to the lack of relevance ranking -- but hopefully this serves as a test of concept, and feedback is welcome.
>
> - Demian
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>   
Received on Wed Apr 28 2010 - 15:03:10 EDT