Notes last updated: 2 May 2000

[ These are just random notes, questions, observations,
  musings that have come to me today.  Please vigourously
  disabuse me of absurd notions before they become
  ingrained!]

* Linking to "parent" record
  Linking a review to a novel, etc - how is this represented in the
  marc tag space?  "Source", not really...  I guess it is a link to
  an internal record number which has no meaning outside ALEG,
  but still, it might be nice when generating a marc record to be
  able to confidently put the title of the parent record somewhere.
    
* Review of a short story, part of an anthology
  What about a review of a short story which is part of an anthology -
  surely the review "parent" points to the short story, not the
  anthology (especially as the short story may be published
  in several anthologies, or 'stand alone' in a magazine..)

  Can reviews themselves become part of an anthology?
  (Eg, "Collected reviews of Canberra Times Journos")

* We need an Origin field
  Defines where this record came from - eg, BAL, AUSTLIT...
  Maybe this defines some editing/revision protocol?

* We need a Status field
  Maybe it will be handy to have a "in-progress" and/or "under
  review" status which will identify records that should not
  be shown to the public?  Can this flag only be applied to
  "new" records?  If so, how would you flag pending issues in
  existing records which require updating?

* Notes field
  "Earliest known date" - this is so common, and specific maybe it
   should be removed from the anonymity/generality of "Notes"
   and be a specifically identified field, displayed to the user
   with a specific heading?

* Work flow issues
  Related to the status field, maybe there is a requirement for:
	- indexers to be able to add non-public comments on
	  records (pending issues, pending corrections)
	- indexers/other staff to be able to search for these
	  (eg, all new comments entered by X in the last
	  n days), or new records (all new and edited records
	  updated by X in the last n days)
  	- add multiple comments, respond to comments (maybe
	  link to email?)
	- keep revision/change history (what was changed, who
	  changed it, when it was changed, what comments were
	  added)

* Global search/replace
  Mainly for thesaurus terms?  Eg, change all "Ship Building" to
  "Boat Building"...
    
* Holdings
  Return info in "ALEG" style page - ie, regardless of whether
  sourced from ADFA, Kinetica, Monash, the holdings info
  would look the same.
  
  But is there any need to consult any source other than Kinetica
  for holdings?  Ever?  (Annette mentioned the desirability of
  showing users local holdings first - eg, for a Monash searcher,
  holdings at Monash libraries, followed by holdings at other
  Victorian libraries, followed by rest of Australia.  Also, it would
  be handy to decode the library codes into a name understandable
  by lay users.)

  How to search accurately Kinetica for holdings?  Title + author? 
  All editions?  ...
 
  How to interact with Kinetica to get holdings?
	- Z39.50?
	- web screen scraping?
	- custom protocol?

* RAAM
  How to execute search on RAAM?  Just on creator name?
  or Creator name and title words using the RAAM
  "All indexed words" option (eg, 'Boldrewood Robbery Under
   Arms' - seems to work!)
   Maybe need an "expert" option which just drops the user
   into RAAMS

* SETIS and full text
  Do we just search for title words (eg 'Robbery under arms') on
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/pubotbin/ot2www-ozlit2?specfile=/usr/ot/www/ozlit/ozlitbin/ozlit.o2w
   
   It isn't clear to me how we get easily (automatically) to the full text:
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/pubotbin/ot2www-ozlit2?specfile=/usr/ot/www/ozlit/ozlitbin/ozlit.o2w&act=text&offset=2202337&textreg=2&query=robbery+under+arms

   What about other full text sites, such as Project Gutenburg?

http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=1198&full=yes&ftpsite=ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext98/robry10.txt

* Indexing 
  Aim - to make entry of the indexing process as fast, simple and
  accurate as possible

  Some possible approaches:

	- templates based on type of material (review template, novel
	  template, etc)

	- Enumerate common "notes" options in a dropdown for selection
	  and replacement of boilerplate section (common options are	
	  listed in the "Guide for AUSTLIT Indexers" section 2.15
	  pages 71 - 72.)

	- make it easy to select and assign to a work:
		- terms from thesaurus and previously used non-thesaurus
		  terms
		- source, author, ... (what else?)
		- for reviews/criticism, the work(s) being discussed

	  For collections/anthologies, the ability to remember the last
	  source used and easily recall it would be very handy because
	  items within a collection/anthology tend to be indexed together.

	- "easy to select"
		- how physically to do this?  What about a separate, movable
		  resizable, scrollable window which can contain one or
	    	  more authority lists (multiple windows each with a separate
		  list, or one window with multiple lists, or a combination?)
		  which allows items to be selected and "drag and dropped"
		  to the work being indexed (eg, display Thesaurus in
	  	  all its hierachical narrow/broader/related/ glory, select a
		  term and drag it to the current work-sheet)?  Or a popup
		  window which pops up on demand rather than is open
		  all the time?  Or both?


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