[Koha-devel] searching for phrases

[Ian Walls]

It would be good to give folks the option on install, Zebra or Solr.  Would
lead to a more modular design, and give folks more control over their
system.  Of course, that would introduce yet another layer of complexity
when troubleshooting search bugs, but I think that's an acceptable trade
off.  Does anyone disagree?


-Ian

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the idea that developers have had on the Koha IRC chanel - to
> replace Zebra is Solr -- that would probably solve this problem as
> well!
>
> Nicole
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Ian Walls
> <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> > It seems like it might be a good idea to parse the search string
> > provided by the user (in "Googlese") into Zebra's prefix system.  Not
> > only could we handle phrase searching, but we could do a host of other
> > translations (&'s give us some escapement craziness, if I recall).  We
> > could also do things like converting ISBN-10's in ISBN-13's or vice
> > versa.  It could even be piped into the administrative area to let
> > people turn on and off translations, and make it easy to develop new
> > ones (they'd basically be regex).
> >
> > Sounds like an RFC to write up for 3.4!
> >
> >
> > -Ian
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurdock at ccfls.org>
> wrote:
> >> Hmm, I see that you can do a keyword phrase search with kw,phr= or a
> >> title phrase search with ti,phr=.  Cool!  I wonder, could a bit of code
> >> be added to the search module to automatically translate a string in
> >> quotes to one of those?
> >>
> >> Cindy
> >>
> >> Cindy Murdock Ames wrote:
> >>> Thanks, Nicole.  I couldn't see it because my syspref for
> >>> "expandedSearchOption" was set to "don't show".  And thanks for the
> link
> >>> to the search docs...I didn't know about the search prefixes.  :)
> >>>
> >>> I agree with Kyle, though...it would be nice if we could do phrase
> >>> searching with quotes.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Cindy
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Nicole Engard wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On your advanced search page click 'More Options' and then you'll see
> >>>> the Title Phrase option again.  Also the searching docs are here:
> >>>> http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=c7881
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Nicole
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Cindy Murdock Ames <
> cmurdock at ccfls.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there a way to search for phrases in the Koha catalog, or to make
> >>>>> Koha rank phrases higher than other search results by default?  For
> >>>>> example, if I search for "world book", in the expectation of finding
> >>>>> World Book Encyclopedia, I get a vast number of search results (about
> >>>>> 3,400), because the words "world" and "book" are apparently fairly
> >>>>> common in my MARC records.  I'm using 3.2 alpha with zebra, with
> >>>>> approximately 350,000 records.  There used to be a title phrase
> search
> >>>>> option in the advanced search, but that doesn't seem to be there
> anymore.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>> Cindy
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>>> Cindy Murdock Ames
> >>>>> IT Services Director
> >>>>> Meadville Public Library    | CCFLS
> >>>>> http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org
> >>>>>
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Cindy Murdock Ames
> >> IT Services Director
> >> Meadville Public Library    | CCFLS
> >> http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org
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