[Koha-devel] what about creating a new "opac-any" index in zebra?

[Mathieu Saby]

Jared Camins-Esakov a écrit :
>
> Mathieu,
>
> > As a librairian, I think the "any" index defined in record.abs often 
> return too much results, and inappropriate.
> > It is partly caused by "any" index indexing all fields, including 
> all notes fields (5XX in marc21, 3XX in unimarc), and of a lot of 
> fields that could be usefull for staff but not for our public 
> (internal item notes, statistic codes, date/place of publication etc).
> > I want to submit you an idea :
> > - creating a new index in zebra, matching only "usefull" fields and 
> subfields (and it will be editable by all libraries...). For example 
> we could call it "opac-any"
> > - modifying the templates so that this index may be used instead of 
> "any" when somebody makes a search in opac.
> >
> > What do you think of that?
>
> I like the idea, though I would prefer to use the bib-1 attribute 
> intended for that (there is one, though I forget which and can't check 
> just now). Logistically speaking, however, this is quite difficult. 
> Record.abs and its DOM equivalents are files on a file system, and 
> cannot be edited from the staff client. This is not an insoluble 
> problem, but making this possible in a way that could be integrated 
> with solr without forcing us to go back to primitive GRS-1-style 
> indexes would take some doing.
>

When I wrote "editable by all libraries..", I meant 
editable-in-the-hard-way (record.abs etc). It would be better than 
nothing...

> As an initial step, you might consider submitting a patch that adds 
> the hardcoded index and allows librarians to choose which keyword 
> index to use on the OPAC and staff client. This shouldn't be too hard.
>

I will try to do that next week.
I add that as many libraries we are looking forward for SolR, so I won't 
spend weeks of work for reconfiguring Zebra based search, but even 
little improvements will be helpful for our users ;-)


> Regards,
> Jared
>
Regards
Mathieu


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