Re: interface changes

[Emily Horning <emily.horning@yale.edu>]

I would prefer to keep Language.  It's important in the humanities
databases, like Philosopher's Index.

Emily

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, David Stern wrote:

>
> I bow to Andy's judgement ... and assume that since there no other
> comments this means that nobody else has an opinion and will go along with
> this decision?
>  David
>
> > This is a tough sell!  Language is only one line.  I would like to see it
> > as a default because sometimes users assume that if the title and abstract
> > are presented in English, that the article will also be in English, which
> > is not always the case.  Better they know this up front rather than after
> > going throught the effort of getting the article (including perhaps staff
> > effort in ordering the article through ILL).
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> > At 09:44 AM 1/15/02 -0500, you wrote:
> > >my initial impression is that it would be fine to include the following
> > fields:
> > >
> > > >Abstract (AB)
> > > >Conference Details (CD)  - will not affect many records
> > > >Descriptors (DE)
> > > >Fields with Hits (*H)
> > >
> > >basically leaving out the
> > > >Language (LA)
> > >
> > >>Do other have objections to including these fields?  I think users prefer
> > >>to have as much relevant information up front as possible, without having
> > >>to click to another screen.  I suspect some people don't bother to go to
> > >>the full record and therefore don't realize they can read an abstract.  I
> > >>like including fields with hits because I have times when users ask why a
> > >>certain record was retrieved when their keywords did not appear.  When I
> > >>set these options it didn't seem to make the initial display unreasonably
> > >>long.  Descriptors and conference details are currently displaying in
> > >>INSPEC--I guess because Kim had SP revert to the defaults for the previous
> > >>version.
> > >>
> > >>-Andy
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >Andy.  You seem to be alone on your desire for your number 3,
> > >> >Change default fields to display to include:
> > >> >Abstract (AB)
> > >> >Language (LA)
> > >> >Conference Details (CD)
> > >> >Descriptors (DE)
> > >> >Fields with Hits (*H)
> > >> >
> > >> >so I haven't asked for it yet.  If you want to lobby others to your point
> > >> >of view, please do so.  Unfortunately, this kind of change is all databases
> > >> >or none on the interface.
> > >> >
> > >> >--Kim
> >
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