Re: [VuFind-General] Exact title searching

[Alan R. <ala...@mn...>]

Hello Bill,

As long as the title they want is in the top 5 or so, what different
does it make? That's what the relevancy ranking will do, bring the title
to somewhere near the top of the list.

It has taken some re-education of librarians in our consortia to get
them to take to VuFind. I keep telling them if they want their old
functionality they have Aleph interface. VuFind is a new and different
tool. If you are a researcher and want a specific version of some book,
use the standard Aleph interface. If you are an undergrad working on a
general paper, this will help. We're not replacing the standard
interface, we're giving them an different searching option with
different pluses and minuses.

al


On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 11:12 -0500, William Denton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As we're getting VuFind ready for September we're getting questions from 
> librarians about the inability to do exact searches.  I don't know much 
> about Solr, and I haven't looked at too much of the source code, so 
> forgive what may be a basic question, but I didn't see it documented.
> 
> As I understand it, the default Title search is a keyword search on 
> titles.  Search for [the maltese falcon] and you get everything, modulo 
> stop words and stemming, that has "maltese" and/or (we made it just and) 
> "falcon" in the title.
> 
> Put "the maltese falcon" in quotes and you get everything that has that 
> phrase in the title, which will bring back THE MALTESE FALCON but also THE 
> MALTESE FALCON FOR DUMMIES and I WAS A TEENAGE MALTESE FALCON.
> 
> Is it possible to do an exact match so only things called THE MALTESE 
> FALCON come back?
> 
> Bill
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