I'm not sure why Solr is so out of sync with everything else. I know we've tried to address this and have not gotten anywhere with enough traction to fix it for good. It's also on our internal ticket list. If you create a github issue we can link it to that, might help nudge things along.
________ Jessamyn librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt 05060 On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Ben Companjen <bencompan...@gmail.com> wrote: > These issues are caused by the search server Solr being out of sync > with the database. For some reason it seems to have been impossible to > (re)index the records that were not indexed at creation or last > update, which for the items you linked is years ago. New edits should > be picked up. > http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=ol-tech%40archive.org&q=solr&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 > lists messages from the list archives about Solr. > http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech%40archive.org/msg00716.html is a > message from 2012 about how far behind the index process was. > > You should create an issue on Github: > https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues > > No guarantees that anyone will pick it up, but this is something that > can be fixed. > > Ben > > On 4 March 2015 at 07:06, Jon Leech <oddh...@sonic.net> wrote: >> As I work with OL, more inconsistencies continue to show up. For >> example, something like 1% of the searches I perform by title simply >> fail, even though the exact title is in the full dump, and the work page >> can be reached by going directly to the corresponding URL. Consider: >> >> https://openlibrary.org/search?q=the+light+that+failed >> -> "No hits" >> vs. >> https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20169W/The_light_that_failed >> >> In similar vein, I've found quite a few works/editions which are >> shown on their results page as belong to an author - but when I click >> through to the author page, the work/edition does not show up on their >> results. For example: >> >> https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4944240W/The_high_frontier >> vs. >> https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1063381A/Gerard_K._O'Neill >> >> This makes me think that there are some fairly widespread issues >> with the online database, or with how it's being used. Maybe it is just >> in the web interface code, since the information to make all these >> connections is available in the full dumps I downloaded. >> >> Do other people encounter these sorts of issues? They feel like >> pretty fundamental problems. I have reported them through the bug >> interface, but would like to get a handle on how reliable the DB / >> website is considered from people who've used it longer. >> >> Jon >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-tech mailing list >> ol-tech@archive.org >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech@archive.org/ >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > ol-tech@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list ol-tech@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org
