Sorry about this, but I have made a mistake and dc.description is actually
indexed. Still, the problem remains because you can only search it via the
generic search ("ANY"), and specific search yields the correct results (as I
said, in titles, for example).

Thanks and sorry again.

Rafael Henkin


Rafael Henkin wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
>             I have a doubt about searching metadata in DSpace.
> 
>  
> 
>             We currently have one community with items that have
> "dc.description" metadata, and there isn't a search index specific to this
> metadata. However, the results can still be found via simple search, so I
> suppose that the search is done across all metadata.
> 
>  
> 
>             The problem is that there seems to be a problem with encoding,
> or with the analyzer. There's one word which includes an "ö" in this
> field, and, if it used the DSAnalyzer (of which we use a modified version
> that correctly uses the Latin1 accent filter for every other indexed
> metadata), it should be the same searching "o" or "ö". However, results
> are different when we search for the word (in this case, "mössbauer") with
> or without the accent. 
> 
>  
> 
>             So the question is: can I do anything about it? Should I add a
> index for this metadata so it's indexed properly with the analyzer?
> Because other than that I don't know what the problem is. It should be
> noted that the indexed fields have their accents removed correctly (if the
> word is in a title, which is an indexed field, "o" or "ö" bring the same
> result).
> 
>  
> 
>             Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
>             Rafael Henkin
> 
> 
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