I found this from Dan Scott's blog most helpful for tweaking relevancy for keyword searches: http://coffeecode.net/archives/218-Adjusting-relevancy-rankings-in-Evergreen-1.6,-some-explorations.html
I also added the content to the documentation: http://libdog.mohawkcollege.ca/evergreen_documentation/draft/html/index.html under "Adjusting Search Relevancy Rankings" Robert ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hardy, Elaine [[email protected]] Sent: September 14, 2010 9:22 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question Gordana, A nontechnical explanation -- pretty much every field, even the 050. Which can mean some odd results since the search can return titles where the term retrieved is across two subfields -- the end of one and the beginning of another (rare, but it does happen, unfortunately I don't remember an example). A recent keyword search I did in the PINES catalog to find "hitory" returned records with the Japanese name "Hitori". It can take a little digging to find out why a record was returned since the keyword search brings up things like "hitori" for "hitory" (matches exactly sometimes helps). Elaine ________________________________ J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Ste 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax [email protected] www.georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org/pines<http://www.georgialibraries.org/pines> ________________________________ From: "Chris Sharp" <[email protected]> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 7:32:39 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question Hi Gordana, This is a highly technical post, but explains what goes into Evergreen searching: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation:technical:search_grammar You might want to read the blog post that Mike Rylander wrote about indexing as well: http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=410 Hope that's helpful! Chris Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 [email protected] http://pines.georgialibraries.org/ ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordana Vitez" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:53:35 PM > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question > Hi everyone, > > We're having some problems trying to figure out exactly what is being > searched when one does a keyword search. The results we're getting > back aren't really making sense. Can anyone tell us which fields are > searched? > > Thanks! > Gordana > > Gordana Vitez > Niagara College Libraries > Welland Campus > 300 Woodlawn Rd > Welland Ontario > L3C 7L3 > Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 > Fax: (905) 736 6021 > [email protected] This E-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the individual or entity named in the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If this communication was received in error, please notify the sender by reply E-mail immediately, and delete and destroy the original message.
