Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
I wonder if there is any chance that the BT, NT, and RT might be able to get incorporated into this in the future (again, the WW II, WW 2, World War II, World War 2 problem could get fixed this way)
No problem at all - if only someone can provide the data. The current setup was rigged up in a few hours and was meant as a demo. The software used is capable of much more, it scales into the tens of millions easily.
I know that we got "bad data structure" in MARC ...
For this purpose, and with the indexing technique used, the structure is more than good enough.
Still, I think there might be a slight problem with the system, Bernhard. For example, if I pick the topic "Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600"
However, if you put quotes around the subject heading, i.e. subject:"Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600", then you get 605 books that actually match the given heading (even though "From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East", the sixth hit, does not have this heading in the list that is given, searching WorldCAT reveals that it *does* have this heading - evidently, there is a subject heading limit Google has here...).
Right, thanks for this hint. I've placed the quotes where they belong and now it works as it should. Without them, Google seems to attempt some keyword jumbling that is inappropriate here. Regards, B.Eversberg
