Incorporate See / See Also authority record data in search results.
For example: If a patron searches for the author Noelle Stevenson, results for their established heading of ND Stevenson should come up.
or if Diwali is searched for, the established heading of Divali should be included in results.
Charlie Rosenthal
shared this idea
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Elaine Sloan
commented
The variants of names already entered into the authority record is data that exists, and would be helpful to display and index in Vega. I'm glad to see this proposal as well.
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Dustin Ludeman
commented
I'm glad to see this proposal, Charlie. We can't expect users to know the "authorized" forms of names, titles or subjects used in the catalog. That's only the surface level of organization in our catalogs. Authority data is the stuff that will actually help users navigate from the terms THEY know to resources relevant to their needs.
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Tomasz Kalata
commented
This seems like a no-brainer, but I rarely see this implemented in modern discovery layers. Variant names in other non-Latin scripts would fall into this as well. This should apply to subject searches/subject authority records as well. Would be a really good feature to have for sure.