Hi all,
I'm sending along an update on these search projects that MassLNC would
like to fund. To get everything started, MassLNC has contracted with
Equinox to perform work for the first two projects: investigatory work
for infrastructure improvements for search and development to follow up
on on the results of that investigatory work.
We are still looking for partners to help us fund the third project: a
search and display infrastructure project.
This project will change the way we configure indexes for the keyword
class, allowing us to 'kill the blob' that is currently used as the
default keyword index. It will also implement the Metabib Display Fields
development. Expected end results of this project are to 1) Allow sites
to more easily weight fields in a keyword search 2) Use Metabib Display
Fields to render the catalog's search results and record detail pages 3)
Add the ability to use proper case in reports, 4) Add the ability to
highlight search terms in the search results page and the record details
page.
Although MassLNC has funds to contribute to the third project, it is a
large infrastructure project that we cannot fund on our own. If your
organization is interesting in helping fund improvements to Evergreen
search, feel free to contact me off list and I'll send details along to you.
Thanks!
Kathy
On 06/13/2016 10:47 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
As you know, MassLNC has been working this year on finding ways to
improve search in Evergreen. As a result of several community-wide
discussions on search as well as a follow-up meeting with our
colleagues at Equinox, we are now looking to fund some projects that
we believe will bring improvements to the current Evergreen search.
The projects include:
- investigatory work for infrastructure improvements for search. This
is largely a consulting project where Equinox would prototype the
elimination of staged search, analyze potential optimizations in newer
PostgreSQL releases, and investigate and prototype other relevance
improvements.
- a development project to implement the improvements that come out of
the investigatory phase of the project.
- a search and display infrastructure project. This project will
change the way we configure indexes for the keyword class, allowing us
to 'kill the blob' that is currently used as the default keyword
index. It will also implement the Metabib Display Fields development.
Expected end results of this project are to 1) Allow sites to more
easily weight fields in a keyword search 2) Use Metabib Display Fields
to render the catalog's search results and record detail pages 3) Add
the ability to use proper case in reports, 4) Add the ability to
highlight search terms in the search results page and the record
details page.
We also hope that this work will lay the groundwork for building a
good Did You Mean? enhancement in the future, even though it isn't
included in the scope of the current project.
MassLNC is committed to allocating funds towards this work, but the
project is complicated, and we are not able to fund it on our own. We
are putting out a call to see if there are other Evergreen sites out
there that are interested in helping us fund this very important project.
If you would like more information on this project, please send me a
direct e-mail, and I will share more details with you.
Thank you!
Kathy
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Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
