[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] question about relevance - mult eds of same book not in most recent order

[Melissa Belvadi]

Hi, all.
 
We've noticed no apparent pattern to how the relevance in 1.4 sorts books that are multiple editions of the same book.
 
For instance, we choose to keep many older editions of veterinary textbooks in our role as the primary veterinary college library in our region.
We have all 6 editions of "Textbook of internal veterinary medicine: diseases of the dog and cat", the 6th ed being 2005, and on back to the first edition being 1975.
With the default relevance ranking, a "keyword" search on "Textbook of veterinary internal medicine diseases of the dog and cat"
results in the 6th coming up first, but the rest are in the order (by ed# going down) 3, 2, 4, 5, 1.
 
A "title" search is much worse, coming up in the order 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6.
 
I would suggest that it is very likely that patrons would consider the most recent edition to be the most relevant.
 
Is this something that we can change locally, or something we'll see changed in 1.6, or can we suggest it as an enhancement for a future update?
 
Thanks!
 
 
 
 

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Melissa Belvadi
Emerging Technologies & Metadata Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 
902-566-0581
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