[Koha-devel] Listing Zebra (and Elasticsearch) indexes for end-users' benefit

[Andrew Fuerste-Henry]

Hi all!

For what it's worth, there is a list of Zebra indexes in the manual:
https://koha-community.org/manual/latest/en/html/searching.html#koha-search-indexes.
I'm all for a fun tool that shows them within Koha, but it'd also be great
if the manual were up to date.

Speaking of showing search indexes right in the Koha staff client, Elastic
already does that. The Search Engine Config page in administration shows
you exactly how all of your MARC data is indexed for Elastic. It would
totally make sense to rework this to also be able to show Zebra values.

Andrew

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:49 AM Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers at biblibre.com>
wrote:

> Hi, sounds nice.
>
> FIY I am actually using a transformation of Zebra config in order to
> present it in CSV:
>
> https://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/tools/src/branch/master/zebra/list_indexes.xsl
>
> We may use this to display in HTML.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Le 18/08/2021 à 17:12, dcook at prosentient.com.au a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As always, a new day brings a new Zebra idea.
> >
> > One of my librarians asked me if there was any way to get a list of
> > Zebra indexes (particularly for Record Matching Rules), and I was all
> > prepared to say no… when I remembered something I read the other day.
> >
> > It turns out you can send the query "@attr exp1 1=1 attributedetails" to
> > the magical database “IR-explain-1”, and it will give you a list of all
> > the indexes in that database along with the type of index and how many
> > documents are indexed against that index in the database. I think this
> > is something that we should add to Koha!
> >
> > I’m not familiar with Koha’s use of Elasticsearch, but I imagine there
> > is an easy way of getting a list of Elasticsearch indexes?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Of course, while having a list of indexes is good, it would be nice to
> > know what MARC data is in each of those indexes. I’m thinking about
> > creating a Koha Plugin that parses "biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml" and shows
> > a user-friendly view of what parts of the MARC record are put into which
> > indexes.
> >
> > --
> >
> > What do folk think about that? I think having a list of Zebra indexes
> > would be very useful for Record Matching Rules, but also for a “Search
> > tips” guide for the Staff Interface and OPAC.
> >
> > While we could provide a static list of indexes, but I think that would
> > be too much of a maintenance burden. I think having a list from Zebra
> > (or Elasticsearch), which we could cache in Memcached, would be the way
> > to go.
> >
> > Ideally, we could have an API route that surfaces this information, so
> > that we could just do an AJAX lookup from a web interface.
> >
> > --
> >
> > I’m hoping my librarian will sponsor development of a plugin, but I
> > think this would be useful in the core Koha code.
> >
> > David Cook
> >
> > Senior Software Engineer
> >
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> >
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> >
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>
> --
> Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers at biblibre.com>
> Software and system maintainer 🦄
> BibLibre, France
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