[343] in ad-lib
That's What We're Doing!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wpowers@MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 14 12:41:14 1995
From: wpowers@MIT.EDU
To: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
Cc: dcvh@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 12:40:56 EDT
Ye the faithful: At yesterday's (4/13) meeting we came to some
shocking and exhilarating decisions (or maybe I was "flying" on "angel
dust" and "40s") and I would just like to recapitulate some of the
wildest, most serials-oriented ones, because I want to get that
feeling back again!
1. We will adjust B.INDEX so that 246 tags with first indicators
1 and 3 will be indexed; currently 3's are not.
2. We will index all 5xx notes in the WORD index (I assume we
will de-include 510's - what's the story with these anyway? - and
maybe some others like 515, 555, etc. that wouldn't seem (to me
anyway) useful in searching for a record.)
3. We will index 490 0 series into the WORD index.
5. We will index _all_ serials linking fields' (765, 767, 770, 772,
775, 776, 777, 780, 785, 787) $t in the TITLE index. We will not
attempt to index $a because of possible conflicts with the delimited
form of name in the AF. (Jo is designing experiments to determine the
effect of the AF on headings in incoming records.)
My mind is clouded. What else did we decide? The wilder, the
better! Step up and tee off!
Also:
DVH sought me out this morning and raised the following
issues:
1. Are we sure we want to index _any_ link notes? The 780/785 links
will frequently bring up multiple records when only one is wanted, and
some of the other links might already be on a record in another field
(e.g. local practice to trace title in 765 in a 730 field) resulting
in duplicate hits on a single record. Also, 580
notes, which we are considering indexing in WORD, generally
recapitulate information that appears in link notes.
2. If we index linking notes, we should include $s in TITLE
index.
3. Why are 653 fields being indexed? Are there even any in the
database?
4. Should we index 037 (Stock number) if we are indexing 027 and
088?
5. Why are 130's indexed as Series? (Did we decide to change the
indexing to title only, or to index them both as title and series?)
That's all for now! Ta! Walter
