[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question

[Gordana Vitez]

Thanks to all for the technical and non-technical explanations. We had thought all fields were searched but we've been getting some odd search results that aren't explained by any of the explanations. I have a feeling we'll need to track the oddities to find out if they are just odd or an actual pattern.

Thanks again!
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
>>> "Hardy, Elaine" <ehardy at georgialibraries.org> 09/14/10 9:23 AM >>>
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