Thanks to all for the technical and non-technical explanations. We had thought all fields were searched but we've been getting some odd search results that aren't explained by any of the explanations. I have a feeling we'll need to track the oddities to find out if they are just odd or an actual pattern.
Thanks again! 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] >>> "Hardy, Elaine" <[email protected]> 09/14/10 9:23 AM >>> 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 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]
