[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Introduction and Question

Jason Etheridge phasefx at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 11:23:09 EDT 2007


I do think it would be useful to give more information on how matches
are being made, in some generic manner.  Not as a snippet of the
record with the terms highlighted without any context, but maybe
something like "Search terms found in blah and blah", where blah is
maybe some friendly description of the pertinent field mapped from
MODS or Dublin Core, and not necessarily MARC.

So you might get something like:

1) Computers and intractability : a guide to the theory of NP-completeness
by Michael R Garey; David S Johnson
Search terms found in title, table of contents, and abstract.

2) Np Completeness Comprehensive Reference, Guide And Solution Manual for Pnp.
Search terms found in title, subject, user tags, and reviews.

Would that be too weird?  Another notion is to have a sidebar or
summary of the actual match points as facets for the whole result set.
 Maybe something like...

Matched on:
  Title: 5 hits
  Subject: 10 hits
  Table of Contents: 3 hits
  Reviews: 2 hits

Something like that, and then choosing one of those would further
constrain your search.  Useful?

-- Jason


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