[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question

[Hardy, Elaine]

Gordana, 

A nontechnical explanation -- pretty much every field, even the 050. Which can mean some odd results since the search can return titles where the term retrieved is across two subfields -- the end of one and the beginning of another (rare, but it does happen, unfortunately I don't remember an example). A recent keyword search I did in the PINES catalog to find "hitory" returned records with the Japanese name "Hitori". 

It can take a little digging to find out why a record was returned since the keyword search brings up things like "hitori" for "hitory" (matches exactly sometimes helps). 








Elaine 


J. Elaine Hardy 
PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Ste 150 
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 

404.235-7128 
404.235-7201, fax 
ehardy at georgialibraries.org 
www.georgialibraries.org 
www.georgialibraries.org/pines 




From: "Chris Sharp" <csharp at georgialibraries.org> 
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org> 
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 7:32:39 PM 
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question 

Hi Gordana, 

This is a highly technical post, but explains what goes into Evergreen searching: 

http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation:technical:search_grammar 

You might want to read the blog post that Mike Rylander wrote about indexing as well: 

http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=410 

Hope that's helpful! 

Chris 

Chris Sharp 
PINES Program Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Suite 150 
Atlanta, Georgia 30345 
(404) 235-7147 
csharp at georgialibraries.org 
http://pines.georgialibraries.org/ 

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gordana Vitez" <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca> 
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org 
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:53:35 PM 
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question 
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> We're having some problems trying to figure out exactly what is being 
> searched when one does a keyword search. The results we're getting 
> back aren't really making sense. Can anyone tell us which fields are 
> searched? 
> 
> Thanks! 
> Gordana 
> 
> Gordana Vitez 
> Niagara College Libraries 
> Welland Campus 
> 300 Woodlawn Rd 
> Welland Ontario 
> L3C 7L3 
> Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 
> Fax: (905) 736 6021 
> gvitez at niagaracollege.ca 
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