Posting for Janifer Gatenby -- LED

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From: Janifer Gatenby <[log in to unmask]>
To: "'Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative'" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Indexes
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:16:49 +0200

>The problem I'm having is that I no longer remember how we thought we
>could distinguish between "first-characters-in-field" and
>"first-words-in-field" searches in Bath.  In other words, what would
>we have to put into the search term in order to indicate "incomplete
>subfield"?

>bath.titleExact            would be   bath.title="search term"
>bath.titleFirstCharacters  would be   bath.title="search term*"
>bath.titleFirstWords       would be   bath.title="<what?>"

>Were we specifying the "firstWords" search with proximity?

My meeting notes say:

Left anchored is assumed.
Exact match is assumed
Unanchored begins with a question mark

I assume that first characters are "search term*"
I do not have specific notes on first words, and even have a vague feeling
that we decided to ignore them.  I would support first words being
represented by "search term *"

My notes do say that our prose would relate different SRW/U queries to Bath
searches.  We did not want specific Bath elements in the query syntax.  I
agree with Mike that we should not load the index names.

Janifer