Getting More out of MARC with Primo: Strategies for Display, Search and Faceting
Going beyond author, title, subject and notes, there are many new (or newly-revitalized) fields and subfields in the MARC 21 format that support more structured data and could be beneficial to users if exposed in a discovery interface. In this article, we describe how the Orbis Cascade Alliance has...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Code4Lib
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Code4Lib Journal |
| Online Access: | https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/13600 |
| Summary: | Going beyond author, title, subject and notes, there are many new (or newly-revitalized) fields and subfields in the MARC 21 format that support more structured data and could be beneficial to users if exposed in a discovery interface. In this article, we describe how the Orbis Cascade Alliance has implemented display, search and faceting for several of these fields and subfields in our Primo discovery interface. We discuss problems and challenges we encountered, both Primo-specific and those that would apply in any search interface. |
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| ISSN: | 1940-5758 |