[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance

[Jim Taylor]

MUCH, MUCH BETTER!!!  THANK YOU!!!!

 

Apart from speed…not unusual for it to take 30-45 seconds to return results but that was true on the other as well.   Is this normal or should someone be looking into how things are configured?  While not blazing fast the OPAC is usually much better.

 

Thanks again.

 

Jim

 

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Wells
Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 11:05 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance

 

Hello Jim,

 

I think you may have discovered a bug.  By default, the search is already doing relevance ranking, so you don't need anything extra there.  However, it seems that the search 'class' is being more or less ignored; at least it does not trigger a title search in your example.  You are just getting relevance ranked 'keyword' search.

 

The following variation looks like it will honor the title index:

 

http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/marcxml-full/?ti=Bible+in+Mission <http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/marcxml-full/?ti=Bible+in+Mission&count=25> &count=25

 

Does this get you closer?

 

Sincerely,

Dan

 

 

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Jim Taylor <jtaylor at jtdata.com <mailto:jtaylor at jtdata.com> > wrote:

I have still been trying but none of these options or anything else I can find sorts by relevance like the OPAC.   Is there not any way to do a search and get relevant results at the top of the list?

Thanks.

Jim

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From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org <mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org> ] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 4:08 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org <mailto:open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org> >
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance

Jim,

You might try using the slimpac interface to do some searches and see how to build OpenSearch URLs in Evergreen:
http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/en-US/extras/slimpac/start.html
-- that interface sits directly on top of OpenSearch, and just uses an XSLT to transform the ATOM output to HTML.

Since you've looked at opensearch.org <http://opensearch.org> , you probably know about OSD files.  Yours is at http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/-/osd.xml
and it can help you construct URLs as well.

Note, if you're searching for a specific phrase, you can enclose it in double quotes to make sure you get the title you are looking for.

Finally, OpenSearch uses the same backend for searching as the OPAC, you'll just need to construct the URLs a little differently.

HTH,

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Jim Taylor <jtaylor at jtdata.com <mailto:jtaylor at jtdata.com> > wrote:
> Hoping someone can tell me how to get useful results from opensearch.
> I submit a search such as the following…
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> http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/mar
> cxml-full/title/Bible+in+Mission?count=25
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> but I have to go to the 5th page to find this title.   Is there a way to
> tell opensearch to sort by relevance?
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> I’ve looked at opensearch.org <http://opensearch.org>  but not seeing anything helpful and
> can’t find anything the Evergreen documentation that applies…may just
> not be doing the right search of course.
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> Open to other suggestions as well.  I have tried
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> http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras//browse/mods/title/ASL <http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/browse/mods/title/ASL> 
> AN/Bible%20in%20Mission?count=20
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> and it works much faster unless there are no results and then it can
> take about 45 seconds to get a response.  The results seem far more
> appropriate but not as good as what is returned in the OPAC and the 45
> second delay for no results is a non-starter for that approach.
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> Are there any other options or ways to make the above work better and
> faster?   Any way to return the OPAC search results in an XML format?
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> Any other suggestions or links to documentation for the above that
> might shine some light in my vast dark cavern of ignorance?
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> Thanks.
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> Jim



 

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