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

[Marilyn Pillar]

Hi Dan,

I have checked the catalogues of other Evergreen libraries on previous
occasions and just looked at the examples you sent.  Searching a
historical topic better illustrates the issue.  Try searching "Wars of
the Roses" in
http://demo.gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=155265
&t=beer&tp=keyword&d=0&hc=34&rt=keyword

One hit is by Kenneth Allen.  The relevant subjects = Great Britain
whereas the MARC is 651$aGreat Britain $xHistory $yWars of the Roses,
1455-1485  We are not able to find other titles with this exact subject
from the current hit.

Marilyn

-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Dan Scott
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:30 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] shared funding for Evergreen
enhancement?

2009/1/21 Marilyn Pillar <mpillar at innisfil.library.on.ca>:
> Our staff did comment that a series display with volume number would
be of
> benefit to our customers.  Other enhancements which would improve the
search
> capabilities for both staff and the public have also been identified.
>
>
>
> 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.

Hi Marilyn:

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
http://tsuga.innisfillibrary.ca/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?
r=79858&t=beer&tp=keyword&d=0&hc=48&rt=keyword
versus
http://demo.gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=155265
&t=beer&tp=keyword&d=0&hc=34&rt=keyword
- the difference is that authority records have been loaded on the
demo.gapines.org site.

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University