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At 10:44 AM 12/18/2007, Alison Pruntel wrote:
. . .
When I do a title search in our catalog
(http://innopac.fauquiercounty.gov/) for Little Women, I get the brief
display w/various records
(http://innopac.fauquiercounty.gov/search/t?little+women). If I click on
the first in the list, with the 11 entries, you'll see that what would
seem less relevant items are at the top of the list. In this case, The
Delinquent Virgin just happens to have a chapter entitled "Little
women." Can someone enlighten me on where this is controlled, what I can
do to fix this? I'm not sure if it has to do with our indexing or what.
It looks like the results are listed alphapbetically (title) before
relevancy. I am not sure if this is related to our Advanced Searching:
Ranking Options (page #101916), since this isn't using Advanced Search.
And with those, I checked and ours are set as DAR (date, alpha,
relevance). I noticed that we have adjacency search turned off, too. Our
SORT_BROWSE WWWOption is set to t:title|a:Author|c:Year|r:Reverse
Year|m:Material Type, if that matters.
Of course, we're supposed to have WebPAC Pro installed sometime today,
so maybe this is won't still be the case.
It will still be the case, because relevance has nothing to do with
either of the screens you describe. When you do a title search,
you're searching the title index, and the result is usually an index
browse (in this case, a list of indexed titles that begin with the
string "little women"). Little Women appears at the top of this list
not by virtue of being more relevant than the others, but because
it's the first (alphabetically) entry in the title index that
satisfies the search.
When you click the link to Little Women, you're in a record browse,
and the default sort for a record browse following an index search is
alphabetical by the main title. The Delinquent Virgin comes first
because it's the first 245 (alphabetically) of the records that have
"little women" in a title field.
Note that in the WebPAC (Pro or Classic), so-called relevance only
comes into play with keyword searches.
Bob Duncan
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Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
duncanr at lafayette dot edu
http://www.library.lafayette.edu/
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