Just to any who are interested.
We have ended up solving this issue, by modifying SolrServiceImpl.java, so that
if it encounters any dates with questions marks, it replaces with a zero, if it
is located in the first four characters, or ignores it if it is not.
Thanks to all who answered.
Jennifer
Jennifer Whalan
Territory Stories Administrator
Innovation & Access, Northern Territory Library
Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport
Northern Territory Government
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bram Luyten
Sent: Wednesday, 4 May 2011 4:17 PM
To: Jennifer Whalan
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Dates with questions marks in Discovery
Hi Jennifer,
are you still confronted with this problem or have you found a workaround?
the short answer, is that these date notations with question marks are not
supported in DSpace.
It might be possible that our technical guys can develop a custom workaround.
In order to assess whether this is possible, could you describe the different
cases of this question mark use?
194? to indicate 1940-1950
19?? to indicate 1900-2000
1942? -> what does this actually indicate?
I think it would be possible to get DSpace to index another value in SOLR (for
discovery) than the one in the metadata. so for 194? you would actually index
1940, but clicking through to the item page would still show 194?
Another way to tackle it would be to get completely rid of your question marks
(but maybe losing information when doing so). Our metadata quality module can
search for values with specific occurences & then perform batch updates.
with kindest regards,
Bram Luyten
@mire
Esperantolaan 4 - 3001 Heverlee - Belgium
2888 Loker Avenue East, Suite 305 - Carlsbad, CA 92010 - USA
atmire.com<http://atmire.com/> - Institutional Repository Solutions
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Jennifer Whalan
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Am hoping that our problem is not an isolated incident, as to my knowledge this
is fairly common in cataloguing.
We are currently testing 1.7.1 on our development server, and since we did a
large jump from 1.5.2 to 1.7.1, this is the first opportunity we have to look
at Discovery.
After a few stumbles to set solr up correctly, the indexer is running and all
appears to be working perfectly. The only problem we have is for some dates.
Our repository has a rule that any unsure dates can use question marks to pad
them out to the 4 digits required for a year. Eg. 194?, or 19??, or even
occasionally 1942?, though I realise this is not exactly correct, being 5
digits long, and these sort of dates actually display properly.
For dates like 194? or 19?? however, Discovery appears to strip the question
marks completely, which means that we are left with a facet that looks like:
*
Date Issued
* 2000 - 2009
(3517)<http://dspacedev.nt.gov.au/discover?fq=dc.date.issued.year:[2000%20TO%202009]>
* 2 - 999
(367)<http://dspacedev.nt.gov.au/discover?fq=dc.date.issued.year:[2%20TO%20999]>
* 1000 - 1999
(951)<http://dspacedev.nt.gov.au/discover?fq=dc.date.issued.year:[1000%20TO%201999]>
Is it possible to get these sort of dates at least shown in their proper
ranges, so that 194? would show in the 1000 - 1999 range, and in the 1940 -
1949 range, if you drill down? I had a quick look at SolrServiceImpl.java , but
am not sure how I could edit it to change this, or even if this might be at all
possible.
If anyone has any suggestions, would be most grateful.
Thanks
Jennifer
Jennifer Whalan
Territory Stories Administrator
Innovation & Access, Northern Territory Library
Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport
Northern Territory Government
Phone: (08) 8922 0752
Fax: (08) 8922 0722
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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