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"Subject" Fields: Populations and Purposes
This is Naomi Dushay's best attempt to understand the “subject” 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.
Topic Fields
| Field Name | Function | Traits | Current Algorithm |
|---|---|---|---|
| topic | Search: Topic Fielded Search default | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 600 a,b,c,d 600 p,q,t 610 a,b 610 p,t 630 a,p,s,t 650a |
| topicStr | Facet (search results) Subject Fielded Search Item View - subject links have hidden search term for each existing 600, 610, 630, 650 Author View - get subjects by author | not tokenized multivalued not stored | same as topic field |
| fulltopic | Search: Topic Fielded Search Subject Fielded Search getMoreLikeThis | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 600 all subfields 610 all subfields 630 all subfields 650 all subfields |
| subtopic | Item View - subject links have hidden search term for each existing 600, 610, 630, 650 v,x,y,z | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 600 v,x,y,z 610 v,x,y,z 630 v,x,y,z 650 v,x,y,z |
Geographic Location Fields
| Field Name | Function | Traits | Current Algorithm |
|---|---|---|---|
| geographic | Search: default Geo Fielded Search | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 651a |
| geographicStr | Facet (search results) Subject Fielded Search Item View - subject links have hidden search term for each existing 651a Browse View - browse by Region | not tokenized multivalued not stored | same as geographic |
| fullgeographic | Search: Subject Fielded Search Geo Fielded Search | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 651 all subfields |
| subgeographic | Item View - subject links have hidden search term for each existing 651 v,x,y,z | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 651 v,x,y,z |
Genre Fields
| Field Name | Function | Traits | Current Algorithm |
|---|---|---|---|
| genre | Search: default Genre Fielded | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 655 a,b |
| genreStr | Facet (search results) Subject Fielded Search Item View - subject links have hidden search term for each existing 655a Browse View - browse by genre | not tokenized multivalued not stored | same as genre field |
| fullgenre | Search: Subject Fielded Genre Fielded | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 655 all subfields |
| subgenre | Item View - subject links have hidden search terms for existing 655 v,x,y,z | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 655 v,x,y,z |
Era Field
| Field Name | Function | Traits | Current Algorithm |
|---|---|---|---|
| era | Facet (search results) Search: Subject Fielded Era Fielded (only field) Browse view - browse by era | not tokenized multivalued stored | 650y, 651y |
