Author Fields: Populations and Purposes
This is Naomi Dushay's best attempt to understand the title fields in VuFind as of 2008-08-11. It is not guaranteed to be correct, nor up to date. It is shared here in the hopes it may be useful to others.
| Field Name | Function | Traits | Current Algorithm |
|---|---|---|---|
| author | search: default fielded author getMoreLikeThis Display: search results | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded stored | 100 a, b, c, d |
| authorStr | facet (search results) sort search results by author “get similar search terms” for author search author view - get subjects by author “Browse” view - browse by author | not tokenized stored | same as author field |
| author-letter | facet by author: “Browse” view only | not tokenized stored | 100a first char |
| author2 | search: default fielded author | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 700 a, b, c, d |
| author2Str | Author view - get subjects by author | not tokenized multivalued stored | same as author2 |
| Item view - Main Author | 100 a, b, c, d | ||
| Item view - Other Authors | 700 a, b, c, d | ||
| Item view - Corporate Author | 110a | ||
| Citation | 100a, 700a | ||
| auth_author | not used yet | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded stored | same as author field |
| auth_authorStr | not used yet | not tokenized stored | same as author field |
| auth_author2 | not used yet | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded stored | 700 a, b, c, d |
| auth_author2Str | not used yet | not tokenized not stored | same as author2 field |
| author2-role | not used yet | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 700e |