<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Which index? Browse or Search?<div><br></div><div>Our Browse indexes consist of:</div><div><br></div><div>date (date.issued)</div><div>author (contributor.*)</div><div>title (title.*)</div><div>subject (subject.lcsh)</div><div>subject (subject.mesh)</div><div>subject (subject.att)</div><div>series (relation.ispartofseries)</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We wanted to have subject indexes that were browsable also be ones that used pre-coordinated headings. We check</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">those against the national authority files and run monthly checks on those since there is no authority control in DSpace.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Search indexes include the above plus several others.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Does this help?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">--Jeff</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div>Jeffrey Trimble</div><div>System LIbrarian</div><div>William F. Maag Library</div><div>Youngstown State University</div><div>330.941.2483 (Office)</div><div><a href="mailto:jtrimble@cc.ysu.edu">jtrimble@cc.ysu.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://www.maag.ysu.edu">http://www.maag.ysu.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://digital.maag.ysu.edu">http://digital.maag.ysu.edu</a></div><div>"Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know"</div><div><br></div></span></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Platt, Alice wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I’d like to get some general feedback from the DSpace community. What elements did you choose to index for searches in your DSpace instance?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">It struck me today that indexing date:dc.date* [all the dates] is not a good idea, because the date accessioned will also be returned when someone searches for a date -- a result that would be useless to virtually all users. I’m thinking I might be missing other search nuances, so any feedback about what others are doing is appreciated.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Using DSpace 1.5.1 Manakin.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Alice Platt<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Digital Initiatives Librarian<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Shapiro Library<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Southern New Hampshire University<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">2500 North River Rd<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Manchester, NH 03106<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">USA<o:p></o:p></div></div><br><font face="Verdana" color="Green" size="1">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.<br></font>_______________________________________________<br>Dspace-general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dspace-general@mit.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Dspace-general@mit.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>