Re: [IUG] Encore and authority records

[Cliff Glaviano <jglavia at bgsu dot edu>]

Fascinating!  So the user is required to narrow their search of items 
not found by their KW search of Mountain biking ??

III really needs to begin to talk with librarians/catalogers when 
they do their "research" ...  just my opinion ... some may certainly 
disagree ...

TNX

Cliff


At 04:53 PM 12/17/2007, you wrote:
> At IUG, I talked with Dinah Sanders, the Encore product manager,
> about what III's plans are regarding authority records in the Encore
> environment.  As others have pointed out, keyword searching just
> looks for terms in bibliographic, not authority, records.  As an
> authority control junkie, this was quite disturbing to me.  She
> explained (and I'm paraphrasing), that III's research showed that
> most catalog users need to refine their searches far more often than
> broaden them, so Encore is designed to help with the refinement
> process.  It appears to do this really well in the test searching
> I've done in other libraries' catalogs.  Dinah felt that future
> iterations of the Encore platform would include ways to broaden
> searches and that authority records could be a key component in that
> process.  We imagined a second 'tag cloud' presenting terms from
> related authority records (such as 'all-terrain cycling') to the
> searcher, for instance.  I hope that III moves in this direction
> sooner rather than later.
>
> --Martha
>
> Martha Rice Sanders
> Knowledge Management Librarian,
> The HELIN Consortium
> 401-874-4951
> msanders at etal dot uri dot edu
>
>
> At 12:31 PM 12/17/2007, Marty Jenkins wrote:
> >"> 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
> >3640 Col. Glenn Hwy
> >Dayton OH 45435
> >martin dot jenkins at wright dot edu  (937)775-4983
>
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