[Koha-devel] Search Engine Changes : let's get some solr

[Chris Cormack]

* glawson at rhcl.org (glawson at rhcl.org) wrote:
> I post this email while away from my work area and access to most of my
> research materials; more specifically, on a netbook from a hospital room,
> although I personally am fine. I hope my question is not thus poorly
> presented.
> 
> Does the term "precision" have a meaning significantly different when
> applied to the indexing of databases than it does in general use?
> 
> Quote:
> 
> "The precision of a measurement system, also called reproducibility or
> repeatability, is the degree to which repeated measurements under
> unchanged conditions show the same results."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
> 
> I was not aware that precision was a problem with Zebra, although we have
> found, to our great dismay with our recent implementation of Koha, that
> relevancy, which I would call accuracy, is. More correctly and
> scientifically stated perhaps, relevancy sucks.  Do I incorrectly
> associate accuracy with relevancy?
> 
Greg

I have noticed a bug with C4/Search .. such that relevancy isn't
actually being used. 
Is your opac live? If you send me a url I can test my theory on your
opac

Chris

> Quote:
> 
> "...accuracy of a measurement system is the degree of closeness of
> measurements of a quantity to its actual (true) value."
> IBID
> 
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