Re: Advanced Keyword Searching

["Christine A. Haggstrom" <chaggstr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello -

Sorry for the late response to this one - I am reviewing old e-mail 
and I just came across this question about "limiting" to more than 
one material type in AVS.  If you already got this information, 
please excuse the duplication (but I didn't see it in the list 
archives)...

On 11 Dec 2002, Riin Olonen wrote:
> We do not use Advanced Keyword Searching yet in Estonia but we are
> planning to use it. One question - we have been told that with
> Advanced Keyword Searching we can use two or more languages, two or
> more material types for limiting (in traditional webOPAC it is only
> possible to use one languange or all languages, in text-based OPAC we
> can use several languages or several material tupes for limiting).
> Now, I have checked the manual and seen several examples, but it seems
> to me that there is still only possibility to use one language or all
> languages, one material type or all material types. Is it so?

To "limit" to more than one material type or language in Advanced 
Keyword Searching, we use the AVS option to search against fixed-
length fields in the bib record.  So, to search for titles that have the 
word "dog" and are material type Video (DVD) or Video (VHS), here 
at C/W MARS, we use the following Advanced Keyword Search 
strategy:

dog and (mattype:mattypev or mattype:mattypeh)

For us, material type "v" = Video (DVD) and "h" = Video (VHS)

You can do the same thing with language codes (structure of 
search is "lang:langchi").

Hope this info helps.

- Christine


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