Context menu with Factbook tag is inconsistent and can have a huge list of matches

Harry Hahne

With most tags, the Lookup section of the Context menu only lists the top 5 resources prioritized in the user's library. With a Factbook tag, the list seems to be comprehensive. Sometimes the list can become huge, as this example from Jerusalem shows (the list scrolls down for at least 100 items.

However, this behavior is inconsistent. The Context menu on the Factbook tag Jesus Christ only lists the top 5 resources and does not list every individual article. This is consistent with the Context menu for other tags. However, I have a hard time believing that there are not many Factbook tags in other articles other than the main topic.

I see that there is a distinction between the Topic Jesus Christ and the Factbook tag Jesus. But the tagging is quite inconsistent. Sometimes the word Jesus or the phrase Jesus Christ will be tagged with the Factbook tag "Jesus", sometimes the Topic "Jesus Christ" and sometimes both. Both entries allow lookup in the Factbook. I cannot find any pattern to this. In the same paragraph the word Jesus is tagged in several ways.

Suggestion: Use a facet to consolidate multiple matches in the same resource. There would be a list of resources that have this Factbook tag. Then one could expand the list of relevant articles in a given resource to jump to the desired resource. For example, LBD would be listed and clicking on that would show a list of articles in that resource. If there is only one article the behavior would revert to the behavior of the Jesus Christ tag.

MJ. Smith

weekly bump of post for attention ... more curated than usual  10