[VuFind-Tech] Boosting the score of newer documents

[Oliver G. <o.g...@tu...>]

Hi,

I was looking for a way to include the publishing date into boosting of
records (more recent ones should be ranked higher than olders, but not
simply switching sort order), but did not find a way to accomplish that
by modifiing searchspecs.yaml. Is it possible to do that by
configuration? Does anybody do that by now?

I have set up a patch introducing a new parameter for query; setting
this parameter will do something like that:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ#How_can_I_boost_the_score_of_newer_documents

For me, only the first solution of this article (the one concerning Solr
1.3) worked effectively, even though I have Solr 1.4. I can open a new
ticket and submit my patch there, if this might be helpful for anyone.

- Oliver

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