> > Unless something has changed recently, it seems to be the trend in > several of the more recent projects. For example, VuFind, Koha, > Evergreen, at least by default or in their demo configurations, use the > 1xx heading rather than 245$c statement of responsibility, like > Worldcat.org as described by Adam Schiff. > > > > Also lacking in many of the new projects is the ability to do > alphabetical heading browses like those possible at > http://authorities.loc.gov/ and http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Sometimes the browse options are not so obvious - for instance VuFind does offer browse in it's demo system http://vufind.org/demo/Browse/Author, but the simple 'Search' is so upfront, you might overlook the browse and advanced search options. Admittedly it looks like the VuFind browse function needs some more work doing on it. In other cases I've seen examples where you can do 'browse' by first searching for a blank string (returning the whole catalogue), and then using the browse facility. This may not be obvious, but there is no reason why in an implementation this shouldn't be made clearer. What I'd be more interested in is how the browse indexes like authorities.loc.gov might be integrated into the users search experience. This comes back to how we link our data together, and the move towards linked data is one of the reasons that I feel RDA moves us in vaguely the right direction, even if it doesn't get us all the way. Owen
