[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Introduction and Question

[Hardy, Elaine]

Patrick,

The 700 field in a MARC record is an author field. It is used when there
are either multiple authors for the item (since the 1xx fields are not
repeatable) or when the person responsible for the work is an editor. So
we do want an author search to include the 700 field.


 Elaine Hardy
 
 
J. Elaine Hardy
Library Services Manager - Collections & Reference
Georgia Public Library Service,
A Unit of the University System of Georgia
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Patrick Durusau
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:02 AM
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Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Introduction and Question

Greetings!

This is my first post so first a word or two about my background. I am 
currently a co-editor for the OpenDocument Format standard in OASIS and 
its project editor in ISO (ISO 26300). I am also chair of the US 
committee that is the mirror commitee of SC 34, which is currently 
considering OpenXML (DIS 29500). When I am not involved in either of 
those projects, I am the convener of SC 34/WG 3, Topic Maps, as well as 
a co-editor of various parts of that standard. I am an independent 
consultant on standards (primarily markup and semantic integration) and 
related technologies.

My question: Where are the search and relevance sections of the 
Evergreen code?

I ask because I was posting an ILL for "Computers and Intractibility: A 
Guide to the Theory of NP-completeness" to my local library and in an 
effort to be helpful, I did a keyword search in Pines for 
np-completeness (note the lack of quotes) thinking that is a fairly 
unique term. Try it with Pines. The results are rather amusing and quite

definitely not relevant.

I performed the same keyword search with "np-completeness" and got no 
hits. (I would have expected to have the same results with the first 
search.)

That made me curious so I tried searching for author, Garey, thinking it

is a fairly unusual spelling so I would not get too many hits.

Ok, I get some "garey" authors in the first 10 "hits" but also:

Found objects a style and source book  
Ruggiero, Joseph.

Slipcover chic : designing and sewing elegant slipcovers at home
Revland, Catherine.

As "hits" 9 and 10.

Perfectly fine books I am sure but not what I would be looking for when 
searching for author = garey.

Anyway, since searching is one of my interests (topic maps and their 
construction) I was puzzled by the anomalous result.

Looking at the MARC record for the Revland, Catherine "hit" it appears 
that author = garey request is searching the 100 field *and* the 700 
field, which for this item includes:

700 aBall, Michell, ill.
700 aGarey, Carol Cooper

Which would be understandable if I had asked for a "keyword" search. Not

so understandable with a author search.

Well, I suppose I have two questions in addition to my first one, ;-) .

2. Where is the "relevance" code in particular since it was the source 
of the seemingly odd results on np-completeness.

3. Shouldn't author searches default to the MARC 100 field? (With 
keyword taking in 700 entries, etc.)

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
patrick at durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
Co-Editor, OpenDocument Format (OASIS, ISO/IEC 26300)