Patrick, The 700 field in a MARC record is an author field. It is used when there are either multiple authors for the item (since the 1xx fields are not repeatable) or when the person responsible for the work is an editor. So we do want an author search to include the 700 field.
Elaine Hardy J. Elaine Hardy Library Services Manager - Collections & Reference Georgia Public Library Service, A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.georgialibraries.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:02 AM To: open-ils-dev@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Introduction and Question Greetings! This is my first post so first a word or two about my background. I am currently a co-editor for the OpenDocument Format standard in OASIS and its project editor in ISO (ISO 26300). I am also chair of the US committee that is the mirror commitee of SC 34, which is currently considering OpenXML (DIS 29500). When I am not involved in either of those projects, I am the convener of SC 34/WG 3, Topic Maps, as well as a co-editor of various parts of that standard. I am an independent consultant on standards (primarily markup and semantic integration) and related technologies. My question: Where are the search and relevance sections of the Evergreen code? I ask because I was posting an ILL for "Computers and Intractibility: A Guide to the Theory of NP-completeness" to my local library and in an effort to be helpful, I did a keyword search in Pines for np-completeness (note the lack of quotes) thinking that is a fairly unique term. Try it with Pines. The results are rather amusing and quite definitely not relevant. I performed the same keyword search with "np-completeness" and got no hits. (I would have expected to have the same results with the first search.) That made me curious so I tried searching for author, Garey, thinking it is a fairly unusual spelling so I would not get too many hits. Ok, I get some "garey" authors in the first 10 "hits" but also: Found objects a style and source book Ruggiero, Joseph. Slipcover chic : designing and sewing elegant slipcovers at home Revland, Catherine. As "hits" 9 and 10. Perfectly fine books I am sure but not what I would be looking for when searching for author = garey. Anyway, since searching is one of my interests (topic maps and their construction) I was puzzled by the anomalous result. Looking at the MARC record for the Revland, Catherine "hit" it appears that author = garey request is searching the 100 field *and* the 700 field, which for this item includes: 700 aBall, Michell, ill. 700 aGarey, Carol Cooper Which would be understandable if I had asked for a "keyword" search. Not so understandable with a author search. Well, I suppose I have two questions in addition to my first one, ;-) . 2. Where is the "relevance" code in particular since it was the source of the seemingly odd results on np-completeness. 3. Shouldn't author searches default to the MARC 100 field? (With keyword taking in 700 entries, etc.) Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, OpenDocument Format (OASIS, ISO/IEC 26300)