[DCRM-L] Keeping searchability on old citation forms (was: New citation for "Mortimer, R. French 16th cent." and Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.")

[Robert Maxwell]

No, unfortunately the authority records aren’t searched and used in keyword searches of the bibliographic file. I completely agree that this is what’s needed; I’ve suggested this over and over to our people who are designing our “discovery layer” and they seem to think it’s a good idea and doable but haven’t done it.

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568

"We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R. Snow, 1842.

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Erin Blake
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 1:34 PM
To: DCRM Users' Group
Subject: [DCRM-L] Keeping searchability on old citation forms (was: New citation for "Mortimer, R. French 16th cent." and Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.")

Thanks for the quick work in creating the separate citations for Mortimer!

Bob, do you have a magic system where adding a cross-reference to the old form in your authorities makes it possible to include the old form in a keyword search? If so, where can we get one?! Cross-references only work when doing left-anchored browses for us, and I’m willing to bet that approximately no one searches our 510s that way.

The new citations are great for directing people to the right source if they already found the record they want, but researchers accustomed searching the 510 for  “VD16 AND 1222” or “STC AND 13828” when they have a reference number in hand are going to be troubled by
“Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts” and “Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)”

Possible solution: use machine-matching to pair any tricky new 510 with a non-displaying-but-searchable local 510 containing the old form by locally defining a 2nd indicator.  Most of the new 510s aren’t going to be problematic for our users, but there are  a few that are so wildly different from what’s commonly seen in dealers’ catalogs that it seems worth making a list.

Anyone else considering something like this?

Thanks,

Erin.

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu<mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Marcia Barrett
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 12:38 PM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] New citation for "Mortimer, R. French 16th cent." and Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent."

The Standard Citation Forms group has provided separate citations for the two parts of the Harvard College Library. Catalog of books and manuscripts:

http://rbms.info/scf/?post_type=scf_entries&p=1200
http://rbms.info/scf/?post_type=scf_entries&p=2548


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