Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenContent SRU search of OAISter, weirdness?

2007-10-25 Thread Eric Lease Morgan

On Oct 24, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:


I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in
OAISter, called Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational
Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical
Figures
by Robert S. Jensen.

I do an SRU search with query:
dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
And I find the record, one hit. Good. You too could try, and see what
the DC returned looks like. It does have a dc:creator of Robert S.
Jensen.

But I try a search that includes the author.
dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures and
dc.creator
= Jensen



Yes, this looks weird to me too. I tried a number of query variations
and could not get a hit.

--
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604


Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenContent SRU search of OAISter, weirdness?

2007-10-25 Thread Ross Singer
It doesn't actually work with OAIster's own SRU interface, either.  A
query for the title works, but adding the author's name fails.

OAIster's SRU implementation is very strange, though, so I could very
well be doing something wrong.

-Ross.

On 10/25/07, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Oct 24, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

  I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in
  OAISter, called Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational
  Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical
  Figures
  by Robert S. Jensen.
 
  I do an SRU search with query:
  dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
  Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
  And I find the record, one hit. Good. You too could try, and see what
  the DC returned looks like. It does have a dc:creator of Robert S.
  Jensen.
 
  But I try a search that includes the author.
  dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
  Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures and
  dc.creator
  = Jensen


 Yes, this looks weird to me too. I tried a number of query variations
 and could not get a hit.

 --
 Eric Lease Morgan
 Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
 University Libraries of Notre Dame

 (574) 631-8604



Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenContent SRU search of OAISter, weirdness?

2007-10-25 Thread Joshua Santelli
You're not getting any hits because the name is not Jensen, it's Jansen.
I'm not sure where Jensen came from but the OAIster indexes here have
Jansen.

josh


On 10/24/07 6:04 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm messing with SRU search of http://indexdata.dk/opencontent/oaister

 I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in
 OAISter, called Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational
 Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
 by Robert S. Jensen.

 I do an SRU search with query:
 dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
 Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
 And I find the record, one hit. Good. You too could try, and see what
 the DC returned looks like. It does have a dc:creator of Robert S. Jensen.

 But I try a search that includes the author.
 dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
 Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures and dc.creator
 = Jensen

 0 hits.
 and cql.serverChoice = Jensen= 0 hits

 Same using full name Robert S. Jensen (just as it appears in the
 record), with cql.serverChoice or dc.creator.

 Is this just a bad index, or is something else going on, or what?  As I
 try sample searches on title and author, I keep running into false
 negatives for things that ought to be in the OAISter index. Sometimes I
 can figure out why (title not quite right; title has curly quotes, index
 does not, etc.), but in this case I have no idea. But the net result is
 it's hard to actually find your known item this way, via an automated
 search on known item metadata.

 Jonathan


 --
 Jonathan Rochkind
 Digital Services Software Engineer
 The Sheridan Libraries
 Johns Hopkins University
 410.516.8886
 rochkind (at) jhu.edu


Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenContent SRU search of OAISter, weirdness?

2007-10-25 Thread Jonathan Rochkind

That was a typo in my problem report, I'm afraid. I was actually
searching Jansen, and that still exhibits the problems I mentioned.

I've also moved this conversation to indexdata's own list for this
service, at

http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oclist (thanks to Jason 
Ronallo for bringing that list to my attention).

Jonathan


Joshua Santelli wrote:

You're not getting any hits because the name is not Jensen, it's Jansen.
I'm not sure where Jensen came from but the OAIster indexes here have
Jansen.

josh


On 10/24/07 6:04 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



I'm messing with SRU search of http://indexdata.dk/opencontent/oaister

I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in
OAISter, called Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational
Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
by Robert S. Jensen.

I do an SRU search with query:
dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
And I find the record, one hit. Good. You too could try, and see what
the DC returned looks like. It does have a dc:creator of Robert S. Jensen.

But I try a search that includes the author.
dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures and dc.creator
= Jensen

0 hits.
and cql.serverChoice = Jensen= 0 hits

Same using full name Robert S. Jensen (just as it appears in the
record), with cql.serverChoice or dc.creator.

Is this just a bad index, or is something else going on, or what?  As I
try sample searches on title and author, I keep running into false
negatives for things that ought to be in the OAISter index. Sometimes I
can figure out why (title not quite right; title has curly quotes, index
does not, etc.), but in this case I have no idea. But the net result is
it's hard to actually find your known item this way, via an automated
search on known item metadata.

Jonathan


--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu






--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu


Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenContent SRU search of OAISter, weirdness?

2007-10-25 Thread Tim Shearer

Dumb question, no experience with the syntax, but should there be a
wildcard -or- use of something other than equals (sorry, if I'm way off
base, but most query syntax I use requires like or wildcarding).

-t

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:


That was a typo in my problem report, I'm afraid. I was actually
searching Jansen, and that still exhibits the problems I mentioned.

I've also moved this conversation to indexdata's own list for this
service, at

http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oclist (thanks to Jason
Ronallo for bringing that list to my attention).

Jonathan


Joshua Santelli wrote:

You're not getting any hits because the name is not Jensen, it's Jansen.
I'm not sure where Jensen came from but the OAIster indexes here have
Jansen.

josh


On 10/24/07 6:04 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



I'm messing with SRU search of http://indexdata.dk/opencontent/oaister

I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in
OAISter, called Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational
Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
by Robert S. Jensen.

I do an SRU search with query:
dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
And I find the record, one hit. Good. You too could try, and see what
the DC returned looks like. It does have a dc:creator of Robert S. Jensen.

But I try a search that includes the author.
dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures and dc.creator
= Jensen

0 hits.
and cql.serverChoice = Jensen= 0 hits

Same using full name Robert S. Jensen (just as it appears in the
record), with cql.serverChoice or dc.creator.

Is this just a bad index, or is something else going on, or what?  As I
try sample searches on title and author, I keep running into false
negatives for things that ought to be in the OAISter index. Sometimes I
can figure out why (title not quite right; title has curly quotes, index
does not, etc.), but in this case I have no idea. But the net result is
it's hard to actually find your known item this way, via an automated
search on known item metadata.

Jonathan


--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu






--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu



[CODE4LIB] OpenContent SRU search of OAISter, weirdness?

2007-10-24 Thread Jonathan Rochkind

I'm messing with SRU search of http://indexdata.dk/opencontent/oaister

I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in
OAISter, called Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational
Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
by Robert S. Jensen.

I do an SRU search with query:
dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
And I find the record, one hit. Good. You too could try, and see what
the DC returned looks like. It does have a dc:creator of Robert S. Jensen.

But I try a search that includes the author.
dc.title = Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories,
Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures and dc.creator
= Jensen

0 hits.
and cql.serverChoice = Jensen= 0 hits

Same using full name Robert S. Jensen (just as it appears in the
record), with cql.serverChoice or dc.creator.

Is this just a bad index, or is something else going on, or what?  As I
try sample searches on title and author, I keep running into false
negatives for things that ought to be in the OAISter index. Sometimes I
can figure out why (title not quite right; title has curly quotes, index
does not, etc.), but in this case I have no idea. But the net result is
it's hard to actually find your known item this way, via an automated
search on known item metadata.

Jonathan


--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu