On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/2/12 10:22 AM, Ben Companjen wrote: > >> What the best solution is for you depends on your goals with the data, I >> think. >> You could write software that tries to combine the "(2nd :" and >> "1962-1965)", but I don't know whether anyone would ever use that in a >> subject search. > > Remember that OL organizes subjects in subject pages, it doesn't just > allow search. The date-related subjects will gather together books with > the same or similar dates. Unfortunately, LCSH (and probably the Amazon > subjects) is pretty quirky. > > I forgot the FAST link on the last message: > > http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/1360394/ > > That's the one for a similar heading, but not this exact heading. This > heading has five subfields: > > |a Vatican Council > |n (2nd : > |d 1962-1965). > |t Declaratio de libertate religiosa > |x Congresses. > > and you'll see that "(2nd:" and "1962-1965)" are in separate subfields. > There's no way to know that they are supposed to display with "(2nd: > 1962-1965)" as a single unit unless you go to the effort of intepreting > the punctuation.
You'd also need the pieces in the correct order and the order has been scrambled in both Amazon and Open Library. Tom _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
