[Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

Thu Dec 10 18:35:14 CET 2009

Chad,

Neat!  Always glad to have people volunteer to help make Koha better.

When you say "improve" and "enhance" the search, what are your specific goals?  Faster retrieval time?  More complex search options (nested Booleans, more search fields, regex-style wildcards, etc.)?  More relevant relevance ranking?  All of the above?  Knowing more about the intended result will help us determine how difficult the process might be.

Thanks for your willingness to contribute; look forward to hearing more from you!

Ian Walls
Systems Integration Librarian
NYU Health Sciences Libraries
550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016
(212) 263-8687

From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org] On Behalf Of Chad G. Hansen
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:18 PM
To: koha-devel at lists.koha.org
Subject: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

I am part of a team of researchers in the Brigham Young University Computer Science department who are interested in improving the searching used by Koha's OPAC interface.
Others on the team have come up with a fast and effective way to do searching using folksonomies and we are interested in adding that system to one of the open-source library systems out there. We are considering both Koha and Evergreen for this.
We would like to have the Koha communities involvement as much as possible.

We would like to either enhance the existing search algorithm of Koha or replace it with our own search.

We would like to know if anyone is interested in being involved with this?
We would also like to get any pointers on how possible and how difficult this might be for our team to do this, keeping in mind that we are newish to the library specific protocols and formats (MARC, Z39.50, etc).

Thanks for your consideration.

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Thank you,
Chad Hansen

e. cgh at byu.edu<mailto:cgh at byu.edu>
p. 801-477-0295
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