Message-Id: <199708201448.JAA06542@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 07:52:45 -0700 From: Debora Bittner <mailto:dbittner@ATLANTIS.HPL.HP.COM> Subject: Re: Use of HTML in catalog records To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
>I'm interested in the use of HTML in areas of a record other than the 856
>tag. If HTML is used in various notes fields for instance what do the web
>based opac implementations do?
Controlled fields other than 856 in our web catalog act like searches. Clicking on an author field in a record does a search of the catalog for all items by that author in that catalog.
> More interesting might be embedding links to home pages
>in the case of author entries and publisher sites in the case of publisher
>fields.
Yes, but I would see this more a function of the authority record for an entity. Adding a link to a home page for a person or a website for an organization, etc. - would make sense from the authority record for that entity - not from every record in the catalog associated w/that entity. It would definitely enhance the usefulness of authority records!
Deb
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