RE: z39.50 Voyager attributes?

["Abbott, Bruce" <babbot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It means that you do have a choice.  It essentially gives you the choice of
a title phrase search or title word search (for the position attribute).

This brings up another question.

Is there any way within INNOPAC to use the same field tag search (title,
descriptor) twice for a z39.50 search.
Is it possible to set up a title phrase search and title word search for the
same z39.50 resource.

Bruce Abbott
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Library
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New Orleans, LA  70112

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gayane Karen Merguerian [mailto:gmerguer@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:29 AM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: z39.50 Voyager attributes?


Voyager has posted a list of their z39.50 attributes at

http://www.endinfosys.com/new/z3950.htm

I am having trouble interpreting the chart they have.  For example, if they
give more then one
option for position and truncation, can you choose which one you prefer?

Here's an example of the Voyager attributes for a title search:

Use: 4,
Search type: Title
Position:  1,3
Truncation:  0,1

I am interpreting this as follows: for title searches, I use field 4, title.
For position and
truncation, it looks like I have a choice, is that right?  If  I use
position 1 (first in field),
then no truncation, but if I use position 3 (any position), then there is
truncation.

Is this the correct interpretation of the Voyager chart?

For the other attributes I am applying my common sense (I know, it's very
dangerous to do that!!).
So I am guessing that if I select first in field (position:1) with no
truncation, then the structure
should be "phrase search", while if I select any position in field with
truncation, then structure
should be a "word list" (6).  And I'm using "equal" for all relations since
I'm not doing any number
searching.

Does anyone have any idea if I'm doing this right?  I will test of course,
but it's cumbersome to
set this up and change it frequently, so I'd prefer to put everything in
right the first time if
possible!

Karen Merguerian
Library Web Manager
Northeastern University Libraries
gmerguer@xxxxxxxxxx


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