Hi Michael,
I only skimmed the post before sending the link, but now that I look at
it more closely, I want to clarify something.
When looking at his tips, you'll want to skip the step that starts with
"Bump the relevance when the first search term appears first in the
title in a keyword search" because it makes use of that table I
mentioned below where people have reported performance issues in more
recent releases of Evergreen.
The real magic is in adding a weight to the new index you create. What
you basically are doing is creating a new title index that's in the
keyword class, not the title class. You can then apply a weight to that
index so that those words are weighted a little more heavily than other
words found in through a keyword search.
There is also now a staff client interface where you can create that
index and apply the weight - Admin -> Server Administration -> MARC
Search/Facet Classes. However, even if you create the index there, you
still need to follow the step where you then populate the
metabib.keyword_field_entry table with entries based on that new index.
I hope this helps!
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
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On 8/29/2014 2:05 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi Michael,
Dan Scott wrote an excellent post about this years ago for 1.6 that is
still applicable to current releases of Evergreen -
http://www.coffeecode.net/archives/218-Adjusting-relevancy-rankings-in-Evergreen-1.6,-some-explorations.html.
Just a note that the search.relevance_ranking table he mentions early
in the post is something our consortia do not turn on due to
performance issues that arose in 2.0. However, the rest of the blog
post on how to weight indexes is something we've done in two of our
consortia.
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
[email protected]
Twitter:http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
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On 8/29/2014 1:42 PM, Michael Schell wrote:
Hi All,
I've searched markmail so forgive me if this has been discussed
before. When I do a keyword search in our catalogue is there a way
to have it weight the title higher than other keywords. For example
if I do a keyword search for 'The Replacements' the first page of
results shows "The Replacement Wife" as the 1st result, 8 results
that don't have replacement in the title and then the 10th result
(what I was actually looking for) is 'The Replacements'. link here
<http://forterie.niagaraevergreen.ca/eg/opac/results?query=the+replacements&qtype=keyword&fi%3Asearch_format=&locg=108>
So what is the best way to get 'The Replacements' to the top of that
list for a keyword search?
Thanks,
Michael Schell
Systems Administrator
Fort Erie Public Library
905-871-2546 x301
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
www.fepl.ca <http://www.fepl.ca>
