Title 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| title | search: default fielded title getMoreLikeThis (boost: 75) Display: search results | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded stored | 245 a, b |
| title_short | search: default fielded title getMoreLikeThis | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded stored | 245a |
| titleStr | search: default fielded title “Did You Mean” suggestion used to Sort By Title | not tokenized stored | same as title field |
| title2 (variant) | search: default fielded title Display: search results | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 130a, 240a, 246a, 730a |
| auth_title | not used yet | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded stored | same as title |
| auth_titleStr | not used yet | not tokenized not stored | same as auth_title |
| Item view | 245a 245b 245c decreasing size |
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| series | search: default fielded title fielded series Display: item (440a) | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 440 a, p 800 a, b, c, d, f, p, q, t 830 a, p |
| series2 | search: default fielded title fielded series Display: search results | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded multivalued stored | 490a |
| oldTitle | search: default fielded title | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded stored | 780a ? change to 780t ? |
| newTitle | search: default fielded title | tokenized, stopwords, stemmed, case folded stored | 785a ? change to 785t ? |
