[521] in ad-lib
B.Index update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sbyrd@MIT.EDU)
Wed May 3 12:47:30 1995
From: sbyrd@MIT.EDU
To: ad-cat@MIT.EDU, gyoung@MIT.EDU, tat@MIT.EDU, ninadm@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 12:46:28 EDT
I had a phone call from Michel Ridgeway yesterday. We discussed in
more detail some of the B.Index issues. In particular, after talking
it through, we decided it would be best not to make changes to the
B.Index to reflect series being indexed as titles as well as series.
These changes are nos. 1, 7, 15, 19-22 in "Recommended changes to
B.Index" 950421 version. I have fixed this problem via the opac
set-up. The main issue to me was whether the change would need to
take place in the actual B.Index as well in order to carry over to the
client-server product. Michel's answer, as best as I can describe
it, is that Geopac looks at B.Index only for the actual things being
indexed, but not necessarily for the dcode values. Geopac uses
whatever is set up for indexing in Z39.50. We'll have to investigate
that more thoroughly for that product, but for Advance, Michel is more
comfortable with the way we've already done it (adding dcode T to
series searches in opac set-up) rather than changing B.Index itself.
I can live with that. (The whole issue of the parenthetical display
of the source of a title search in Heading Summary lists is being
pursued by Grant. Evidently the way that screen is set up cannot be
changed in opac setup.)
So here's what we're doing:
1. I have almost completed the list of records to be moved to the
workfile that will be designated as B.Index test records.
2. I will move them to the workfile by Thursday PM.
3. I will submit to Michel (and to this group) a revised version of
the changes reflecting the decisions of our Wed. meeting.
4. Friday, Michel will make the changes to the B.Index.
5. When he's done that, he'll let me know. Then we'll call up the
test records in the workfile, refile them into the main database (thus
invoking the new B.Index changes), and then test them through and
through, with gusto, verve, and lubricated fervor.
Time for a pint,
Sam
