[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.5.2 Subject Browse Index

[Benjamin Kalish]

I like Don's suggestion for how a subject search should work very much,
though I would say that what he describes wouldn't really be a subject
keyword search at all, but something new and significantly different from
what Evergreen currently. If we really wanted to make such a search
powerful, we would include the BT, NT, UF, and other data from the LCSH.

As for the original question of how the subject links should behave on the
browse screen, I definitely prefer for these to be a compete entity, though
this is another place where the experience could be enhanced with BT, NT,
UF, etc.

Benjamin Kalish
Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkalish at forbeslibrary.org

Currently reading: *1Q84 *by Haruki Murakami and *What Is Visible *by
Kimberly Elkins
Just Finished: *Seabiscuit: An American Legend *by Laura Hillenbrand


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> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:20:24 -0400
> From: Donald Butterworth <don.butterworth at asburyseminary.edu>
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> I agree with Janet, that the whole subject phrase needs to be kept together
> so that only the limited set displays when clicking on the phrase. There
> are lots of DLC authority records that include a main subject and
> subdivisions.
> In fact ... what I would love to see in the Subject Keyword Search is for
> the result display to have an intermediate screen based on the whole
> subject phrase. For example the subject keyword "self" in my database
> retrieves 1668 bib records. Not very helpful. Instead I would like to see
> it pull up any subject phrases that include the word self:
> English language -- Self-instruction (20)
> English teachers -- Self-rating of (1)
> Self (56)
> Self-acceptance (12)
> Self-acceptance -- Religious aspects (3)
> Self-acceptance -- Religious aspects -- Judaism (19)
> Self-actualization (Psychology) (112)
> Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age (4)
> Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Problems, exercises, etc. (5)
> Self, John, 1912-1993 -- Contributions in medicine (1)
> Anybody else like this alternative?
> Don
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