[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Introduction and Question

[Hardy, Elaine]

I like the "matched on" list. I think that could be more useful than
individually listing where the terms are located in each record. I
definitely agree that more on why an individual record is retrieved will
help users, particularly since we are moving away from a display that
mimics the old cards.

 

If the search term is in a field not normally displayed (say the 505 -
which I think should be displayed, but that's another topic), is it
possible to display that field when the record is retrieved?

 

Elaine

 

 

 

 

 

J. Elaine Hardy

Library Services Manager - Collections & Reference

Georgia Public Library Service,

A Unit of the University System of Georgia

1800 Century Place, Suite 150

Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304

404.235-7128

404.235-7201, fax

 

ehardy at georgialibraries.org

www.georgialibraries.org

 

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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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