Re: [IUG] Cataloging for Encore

[Marty Jenkins <martin dot jenkins at wright dot edu>]

"> Having "mountain biking" as a see reference doesn't help people using
> keyword..."

Begging the question: why aren't authority records exposed to keyword 
searching?

Martin Jenkins
Head, Technical Services
Wright State University Libraries
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Dayton OH 45435
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Thomsen" <et at noblenet dot org>
To: "IUG INNOPAC List" <innopac at innopacusers dot org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [IUG] Cataloging for Encore


> Stephen raises some good and interesting questions.
>
> I think  "All-terrain cycling" vs. "Mountain biking" is just one example
> of LC Subject Headings that use arcane or academic or otherwise
> unfriendly terminology.  ("Cookery" would be my top choice.)
>
> Having "mountain biking" as a see reference doesn't help people using
> keyword, and on the issue of whether people are planning to analyze all
> subject see references for use as tags, that could be done, but there
> are probably a relatively small number of headings that are known to
> cause search problems for the public.  Being able to stick "mountain
> biking" in all the records with the subject heading "all-terrain
> cycling" is a band-aid approach to the problem, but at least it's some
> attempt to fix an immediate and ongoing access problem.
>
> Another approach would be to use something like the III keyword synonym
> function, which lets us merge the keyword index for pairs of words, for
> Hanukkah = Chanukah.  But this only handles single words, so we can't
> relate a word to a phrase (rainforest and rain forest) or two phrases.
> And the user can't see what terms have actually been searched, which can
> result in confusion.
>
> We would like to handle this sort of problem with a search filter
> approach, so we could maintain a list of terms we want to make search
> equivalents.  The user should be able to see what terms were added to
> the search, and turn the "use related terms" option off if they want.
> That way, we wouldn't be using tagging and trying to edit every record
> to include these tags.
>
> Wynn, Stephen wrote:
> > Why do you prefer an Encore tag to an uncontrolled MARC tag?
> >
> > Since "Mountain biking" is a SEE reference in the authority record for
> > "All-terrain cycling," why do you need to add it as an Encore tag?
> >
> > Do you plan to review all of your authority records for SEE references
> > that could be usefully added as Encore tags?
> >
> > Have you considered any automated methods of adding SEE references as
> > Encore tags, in order to avoid the tedious and redundant manual work
> > that Encore reps advocate?
>
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