[Evergreen-catalogers] MODS indexing and 700 |t

[Hardy, Elaine]

That is good.

Elaine
 

J. Elaine Hardy
PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service,
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[mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of
Galen Charlton
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 9:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [Evergreen-catalogers] MODS indexing and 700 |t

Hi,

On 5/4/2012 9:03 AM, Hardy, Elaine wrote:
> 2) In general, I agree that the 7xx fields should be weighted
> differently than an 1xx field. An good example of a problem with not
> doing so is the author search for John Sandford -- the author of adult
> thrillers and an illustrator of children's books (different people).
> In the PINES catalog (currently out of the box ranking), the
> children's books display first and then the others even though the
> illustrator is in a 700 field and the other Sandford is in the 100..
> It would be a little more relevant to have the 100 Sandford, John
> records first in the relevance ranking. But, what would the overall
result be in putting them in separate name indexes?
> Would it slow down search returns?

No, I wouldn't expect that to make a material difference in search
performance.  That's not to say, of course, that one should take it to an
extreme and create hundreds of new indexes, but adding new default search
indexes for specific purposes like tweaking the relevance of primary and
secondary contributors would be fine.

Regards,

Galen
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