As a user, I want to know which online serials resource in the catalog covers the date of the item I'm looking for

Question

As a user, I want to know which online serials resource in the catalog covers the date of the item I'm looking for

Closed this issue 7 years ago · 15 comments

As we have done with physical holdings, add the date range to the display of "Available online" information for serials. For example, on
https://earleyj-drupal8.www.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/000680344
there is no way to distinguish which of the 10 online resources contains the year/month/day that I am looking for.

This is contained in the 856 $3 field, and should be displayed in a new, 2nd, column labeled "date range".

Date range is the critical factor for selecting the appropriate online source, given a variety of options.

Tasks

@varnum, @bnhowell Decide what the label for 856 $3 and 856 $z fields should be.
@bertrama Provide 856 $3 field with online holdings.
@jonearley Configure UI to display the field.

Answer 1 · 2017-10-06T20:40:03.000Z

Redesigned 'Online Holdings' category to show: Link (link to item) / Description (Date Coverage) / Source (Access restrictions). Happy to edit/improve the labels (especially Source).

Example of Online Holdings with the new metadata columns
InVision design prototype

Answer 2 · 2017-10-09T17:17:08.000Z

@bertrama I see records with online holdings under the links field have a field called relationship. Is that the 856 $3 field that I should be using?

Answer 3 · 2017-10-09T17:21:16.000Z

@bnhowell, your designs have the 856 $3 field labeled as "Description", but @varnum asks for that column to be labeled "Date Range". Asking to clarify what the label decision was.

Answer 4 · 2017-10-09T17:30:32.000Z

@jonearley Yeah, that's what I called it.

Answer 5 · 2017-10-09T18:10:48.000Z

We should label it the same way we do for physical holdings; I think we have "description" for dates/volumes there, and "source" for where it comes from (name of database). If consistency in the volume/date is important, then let's go with that. If not, since the point of discrimination for online journals is the date (not volume/issue), I'm also OK with having "date range" in that column, and Description for the free-text information we already show.

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Answer 6 · 2017-10-09T18:31:35.000Z

As a placeholder, I've updated 856 holding labels to be: $3: Description, $z: Source. Added a task for @varnum and @bnhowell to finalize labels.

Answer 7 · 2017-10-09T19:05:31.000Z

Much better with the dates. @bnhowell what's your thinking on labels?

Answer 8 · 2017-10-09T20:41:06.000Z

If the 856 #4 field label is only containing date range information and not volume information then 'Date Range' is fine as a label.

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Answer 9 · 2017-10-09T20:47:50.000Z

Final answer:

856 $3: Date range
856 $z: Source

Answer 10 · 2017-10-10T16:15:49.000Z

I recommend against Date range for 856$3. What data are you looking at when coming up with that answer?

Answer 11 · 2017-10-10T17:16:25.000Z

For online resources in the "Online Resources" items, it would fit every record I've looked at (admittedly, only the first 10 pages of results) in this search:
https://earleyj-drupal8.www.lib.umich.edu/catalog?query=%2A&filter.availability=Available+online&filter.subject=Electronic+books&page=2

The $3 seems only to be (commonly?) used for serials; ebooks don't have a $3.

What's your concern with using "Date range" as the header?

Answer 12 · 2017-10-10T17:49:46.000Z

Because

We should not be doing ad hoc analysis and guess work when coming up with an implementation. And I shouldn't be the one coming up with examples of what we will see in the wild. Our stakeholders should have provided us with a representative sample of the records they care about for each field we're displaying.

Answer 13 · 2017-10-10T17:58:19.000Z

@jonearley Is it practical to display the heading "Date range" for format=serial, and the heading "Description" for everything else? If not, let's stick with "Description".

Answer 14 · 2017-10-10T18:42:28.000Z

@varnum I'd prefer to use "Description" as the 856$3 label for online holdings. I don't have a mechanism in place for conditional holding displays based on record fields.

Answer 15 · 2017-10-10T18:46:52.000Z

Then I think this ticket can be marked as closed, since that's what's in the interface at present.