On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Demian Katz <demian.katz_at_villanova.edu> 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.
>
I think this is only true because in the current slate of discovery
systems, the search index doubles as the data store (which sort of
duplicates the 'record-as-atomic-unit' problem we have with MARC).
If the data store was a more resource-oriented representation
(bibliographic things, people, subjects, publishers, corporations,
etc. being their own first class citizens), the full text index could
have all of the various representations of the names but that doesn't
necessarily have to impact the user interface.
Obviously this could be done in the search index as datastore
approach, too, it's just more complicated (and I think most
implementors view the search index as more ephemeral).
-Ross.
Received on Thu Jul 22 2010 - 14:54:35 EDT