Relevance ranking of results from MARC-based catalogues: from guidelines to implementation exploiting structured metadata
1 February 2010 - 12:00 The development of new search technologies, and new search behaviours, has opened up new opportunities for libraries to expose their holdings. Our users are more used to searching large aggregations of items, and to being able to obtain rare and unusual items relatively easily. Library holdings, if exposed through centrally searchable union catalogues like Libraries Australia, could see a significant increase in usage in the new "long tail" environment. To take advantage of these opportunities, however, libraries need to provide tools to make resource discovery easier ...
Source: nla.gov.au
