Re: our profession's bibliographic information

From: Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:37:06 +0100
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Am 21.12.2010 05:12, schrieb Jonathan Rochkind:

> I considered the best feasible way to visualize dates in our result
> sets. When you can have a  thousands (or tens or hundreds of
> thousands) of documents in your result set, putting each one of them
> on a timeline seemed infeasible.  What I was able to come up with
> instead was a sort of histogram/bar-graph timeline that grouped the
> results into a sort of fixed resolution.
>
> ...
> https://blacklight.mse.jhu.edu/demo
>
> The resolution of the bars is currently set at around 10, but I
> believe the underlying Solr search engine powering this could handle
> higher -- ...

Good to see this can be done with Solr.

Here's another approach, but proprietary:

   http://www.worldcat.org/identities

Working on a much larger database, it should have more potential
for this paradigm of searching. Also, it incorporates the VIAF database
of consolidated name headings from a number of national libraries.
Bringing together what would otherwise not always come out together
because of the differences in rules for headings.
There seems to be, however, a scarcity of info about the state and
prospects of the project.

B.Eversberg
Received on Tue Dec 21 2010 - 01:41:24 EST