[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] shared funding for Evergreen enhancement?

[Bryan Baldus]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:30 PM,  Dan Scott wrote:
>2009/1/21 Marilyn Pillar <mpillar at innisfil.library.on.ca>:
>> We are most concerned about subjects.  Has anyone looked into the
>> possibility of having more detailed subject displays?  Currently only
>> subfield "a" is displayed in the "Relevant Subjects" list.  This is
>> not very helpful when one is searching for specific time periods in
>> the history of a country for example.

>Actually, if you load authority records into Evergreen (using marc2are.pl / direct_ingest.pl / pg_loader.pl) then subject and author hierarchies matching the current search results will be displayed in the left-hand pane.

>Compare the subject displays for
[links to examples]

When I click on the example links, I get to the record for "Little Polar Bear and the reindeer" for Innisfil and "Little Polar Bear and the big balloon" in Demo-PINES. Along the side are various Relevant subjects:

Relevant Subjects (Innisfil)
Animal migration
Arctic regions
Fences
Lars (Fictitious character : De Beer)
Polar bear
Reindeer

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Relevant Subjects (Demo-PINES)
Bears
Kallen, Stuart A., 1955-
Teddy bears
Berenstain Bears (Fictitious characters)
Bear cubs
Bears -- Mythology
Smokey Bear
Flight
Computer flight games
Aircraft carriers -- Flight decks
Korean Air Lines Incident, 1983
Animal flight
Flight recorders
Bombardiers
Flying-machines
Flight attendants
Flight engineers
Hot air balloons
Polar bear
Snow (Polar bear)
Puffins

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However, while Bears--Mythology and Aircraft carriers--Flight decks are present, I don't see [Heading]--Fiction, or any of the other various subdivisions for [Heading].

Also, while wandering around the Demo-PINES related subjects, I came across "Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975" (after clicking the Aircraft carriers -- Flight decks related subject). However, when I attempt to use this as a subject search (as well as its updated heading "Vietnam War, 1961-1975"), I get zero results. Doing a keyword search on Vietnam War indicates that there are several records, including TCN ocm40835909, with "Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975." Also, looking at the relevant subjects, or doing a subject search on Vietnam, I don't see a listing of all of the various subdivisions under the main heading of Vietnam, like $xForeign relations, $xPolitics and government, $xHistory, etc.

I'd also like to see a way to sort the other "relevant" items, alphabetically, for example, and/or to get to a browse list of all headings in the authority file with links to records containing those headings (in a manner similar to Subject or Author or other Browse in http://catalog.loc.gov/ and http://authorities.loc.gov).

Thank you for your assistance,

Bryan Baldus
Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses
1-800-323-4241x402
bryan.baldus at quality-books.com
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