Re: sportdiscus authors

[BonnieTurner <bonnie.turner@yale.edu>]

The simpler solution for patron use would be to include only the JAVA link.
 I changed the info page for now.

At 10:21 AM 5/12/00 -0400, Kimberly Parker wrote:
>Friends of SilverPlatter at Yale.  Some of you may be able to stretch your
>memories back to a problem that Jeffry reported in doing author searches in
>the Web version of SportDiscus.  ONLY in the web version, and ONLY in
>SportDiscus, an author search (using the checkbox for author), resulted in
>a CA search (corporate author) instead of the usual AU,CA search (personal
>author or corporate author).
>
>I have been occasionally nudging SilverPlatter since the original report to
>determine what is going on and to get it fixed.  Finally today, I was
>informed that yes, it is a bug, and they now know where the problem lies.
>Unfortunately, we don't know when it will actually be fixed.
>
>Here's the situation.  The bug results from including the ATLANTES
>sub-database in a cross-group search.  (There are actually 4 sub-parts of
>SportDiscus).  If we remove ATLANTES from our pre-set entry to all 4 parts,
>then we have no problems.
>
>This is not a problem in the java version.
>
>So for SportDiscus afficionados, I propose that a) we remove ATLANTES code
>from the Web version.  That would mean the link would look like:
>
>http://webspirs3.silverplatter.com/cgi-bin/customers/yale/yale.cgi?sp.dbid.p
>=S(HA,OZ,SP)&sp.nextform=search.htm
>
>if we do a) then should we temporarily create a separate web version link
>to ATLANTES only:
>http://webspirs3.silverplatter.com/cgi-bin/customers/yale/yale.cgi?sp.dbid.p
>=S(0T)&sp.nextform=search.htm
>
>OR b)  we just delete the link to the Web version entirely and only offer
>the java version.
>
>Let me know if you care.  Certainly the easiest thing is to only have a
>java link.
>
>--Kim
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Kimberly Parker
>Electronic Publishing & Collections Libn
>SML 606 or Med Lib TS
>432-0067 or 785-7116
>mailto:kimberly.parker@yale.edu