Demian Katz wrote:
> Obviously, displaying a box of authority recommendations isn't as powerful as having the authority data immediately and directly impact the search results... but it's a start. It would certainly be theoretically possible to embed relevant authority data into bibliographic records at index time in order to allow direct impact at search time... but I suspect that the overhead of doing so would outweigh the benefit for most users.
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I plan/would-like to eventually index authority record "see from"
aliases directly with the documents attached to main headings, so
searches on 'see from' terms will match documents with corresponding
main headings assigned.
This is again just one aspect of what controlled authorities can do for
you, but I think it's a fairly simple thing with some benefit. It will
slow down indexing a bit, depending on how cleverly you can do it, but
shouldn't slow down actual query performance at all.
For my own library-school-paper analysis of the different functions you
can put controlled vocabulary to, which help me at least approach
thinking about how best to enable them in modern search interfaces, see:
http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/purposesfunctions-of-controlled-vocabulary/
Received on Thu Jul 22 2010 - 14:41:09 EDT