[Koha] Searching: Subject V Class

[Roger Buck]

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> > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:44:51AM +1000, Roger Buck said:
> > > > From my tests, I think that the "Subject" search will not return a
> > > > result unless you type in a known subject name. If that is correct then it
> > > > is (IMHO) not very useful for casual users (as they would not know what
> > > > subject names are valid)?
 
Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
> Actually that is correct too - having tried to search for something that it was
> highly unlikely that HLT has as a subject you get no results.  So perhaps at
> this point we need an error message that has an option to "Click for subject
> lists" - so that on smaller systems you get to see the list, but on bigger ones
> you're not waiting an hour for it?

Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
> It's a feature I tell you :-)

OK, I believe you... and it makes sense too (wow!).... but (as you have
said), it doesn't work too well for smaller catalogues - We have over
250 "subjects" on our test server - all within one specialised catalogue
(teaching resources). We'd get no better than 50% success rate - even
though we'd be more familiar with the subject content than many of the
users would be. So the question arises as to whether we can improve
that. 

So my first question:
If I understand correctly, then with the current search method, the
"subject" entries <bibliosubject.subject> are treated as meta-data;
lists of keywords - they do not need to be be human readable?

Is that correct understanding so far...?

R.