On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Marilyn Pillar <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]>: >> 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 > -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
