RE: Limiting a Search by URL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Peterson/Amigos [mailto:peterson@amigos.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 6:26 PM
> 
> I had a couple of people tell me that their ILS already does 
> this by using an unanchored phrase search.  I believe the
> attribute combination for that would be:
> Use: 1032 (Doc-id)
> Relation: 3 (equal)
> Position: 3 (any position in field)
> Structure: 1 (phrase)
> Truncation: 100 (Do not truncate)
> Completeness: 1 (Incomplete subfield)
> 
> So, assuming the search term "nasa.gov," wouldn't you have to use
> truncation in order to get either of the results above?  I'm 
> assuming that "nasa.gov" is a phrase that is being searched.
> Would I receive the match "www.nasa.gov?"

I'm afraid this is a perfect example of the crummy semantics we've assigned
to our bib-1 structure attributes.  That particular community thinks that a
phrase is a word list.  They think a phrase is a list of words with an
implicit operator between then; hence the "do not truncate" attribute.

Ralph

Received on Monday, 27 January 2003 11:01:38 UTC