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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
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