As Ben said, both of these issues were caused by the broken search (the author's works listing was created using the search API). Both of Jon's examples appear to work correctly now. There were apparently improvements made to search indexing recently, but it's unclear, at least to me, if it's a 100% and permanent solution.
Tom On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Ben Companjen <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] > > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] >
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