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

[Mike Rylander]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Marilyn Pillar
<mpillar at innisfil.library.on.ca> wrote:
> 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.

This is due to the default subject indexing setup.  That's
configurable, albeit not through a simple UI in current releases.

--miker

>
> 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
>



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