Re: Terms and display terms in scan from Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress on 2004-02-23 (www-zig@w3.org from February 2004)

From: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <rden@loc.gov>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:39:11 -0500
To: "ZIG" <www-zig@w3.org>
Message-ID: <014701c3fa2b$90c31e70$849c938c@lib.loc.gov>

>  The internal value for "SMITH" may be "S123". Should "S123"
> be returned as the scan term? Searching for "S123" will not
necessarily
> match any records (the soundex algorithm may munge "S123" into
another
> different value, so it wont match).
>
> One possible interpretation is to use the display term for the
original
> term. For example, put "S123" into the term field, but "SMITH" into
the
> display term.

That's the intent of the standard. Look at Z39.50-2003; a comment has
been added to this effect in the ASN.1 (comment #11 for the PDUs).

--Ray

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