Hi
I want to make a proposal to change "People under study" section to be include inside Thesaurus as onomastic hierarchy, the idea could be to use the people as terms for indexing and use them like other thesaurus terms. It's possible?

Thanks

Hi Mariajobrador

Very good question!. Well, now, the section "People under study" rsc197 is not a hierarchy, it's a flat section without parent <-> children relationships. It's possible to transform it with the thesaurus needs and include it as other hierarchies inside the thesaurus... but the fields of people are not the same that other thesaurus sections, like onomastics or toponymy, for ex: the field "term" hierachy25 in thematics is the same field in toponymy or onomastic, but, it's not in People, the "term" for People need to be the combination of name rsc85 and surname rsc86, 2 fields vs 1 ...
name + surname = term
Besides we will have problems with the filter, because the fields are not compatible between thesaurus and People, maybe ,the main question could be; how can include the section to be searchable like other common thesaurus sections?
Well, I think is possible but... I need to do some test, I will back with more detail.

Best

  • PaCo replied to this.

    In addition to what was mentioned above by Alex , the number of records to be handled should be taken into account.
    This is a section that can contain more than 100,000 records without any hierarchy (they would all have the same parent).
    Perhaps an active pagination of child terms could be considered here.

      HI

      Ok, the issues we foresee could be:

      1. We will need a definition of the term to be showed in thesaurus with two fields (name + surname)
      2. We need to manage a large list of records, it could be very large, and it's not possible show all of them at the same time.
      3. The hierarchy has not possibility to add all people records as children (get_data with more than 200.000 locators could be large), maybe we could attach the terms on the fly.
      4. The filter need to be expanded with more than 1 section, for get the fields of the different sections.

      Posible solutions:

      • Add a search terms instead get_data for large sections
      • Attach the people records as children to hierarchy on the fly, indicate it in ontology.
      • Change to array to get section in filter
      • Add something as section_map to define the term in ontology.
      • Add the fields for parent, children, relation, indexation, and descriptor.

      I think is possible do it! We begin to develop it.

      Best

      19 days later

      Hi

      Ready, now the thesaurus could use multiple fields in the term and it can manage large list of records.

      It was implemented in the new v5.9.0 version

      Please comment about the change, it's important to be sure that all is working well, the change is heavy and, if is possible, will be great have feedback.

      Best

      3 months later

      Hello
      I have been testing the inclusion of "Persons under study" within the Thesaurus as a name hierarchy. A wonderful contribution. Thank you very much.
      My suggestion would be: that the filter search as it does with the other Thesaurus terms. It's possible?
      Thank you

      Hello
      It would also be interesting to be able to view the indexing carried out in the thesaurus of the people under study in the INFO of the person's file and in the thesaurus. In summary: to be able to visualize the indexing carried out in the same way that can be done with the rest of the terms of the different thesauri.
      Thank yo

      • Alex replied to this.
        15 days later

        Mariajobrador to be able to visualize the indexing carried out in the same way that can be done with the rest of the terms of the different thesauri.

        Hi

        We will implement this feature in V6 only, do it for V5 will not be possible with our limited resources.

        Best

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