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Re: searching metadata vs searching content

From:

"Levy, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>

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Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 8 Feb 2016 09:14:00 -0500

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I find that in addition to methods of managing, manipulating and searching
rich, complex, hierarchically organized metadata, there are also great
challenges in developing an effective user interface(s).  How to help users
interpret search results that may result from hits in metadata at the
entire collection level, and/or from the component/subcomponent level,
and/or that relate to a single page, and how to do that effectively for
results in a small (e.g. single-folder) or very large, complex archival
collection? In my estimation, the UX/UI issues seem at least as challenging
as the metadata/search issues. I'm sure there is community interest along
all these lines. (Is there any progress within the ArcLight project?)

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Laura Buchholz <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Thanks, everyone! It is always nice to hear what others do, even if it
> doesn't end up being what works for us.
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Owen Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > To share the practice from a project I work on - the Jisc Historical
> Texts
> > platform[1] which provides searching across digitised texts from the 16th
> > to 19th centuries. In this case we had the option to build the search
> > application from scratch, rather than using a product such as ContentDM
> > etc. I should say that all the technical work was done by K-Int [2] and
> > Gooii [3], I was there to advise on metadata and user requirements, and
> so
> > the following is based on my understanding of how the system works, and
> any
> > errors are down to me :)
> >
> > There are currently three major collections within the Historical Texts
> > platform, with different data sources behind each one. In general the
> data
> > we have for each collection consists of MARC metadata records, full text
> in
> > XML documents (either from transcription or from OCR processes) and image
> > files of the pages.
> >
> > The platform is build using the ElasticSearch [4] (ES) indexing software
> > (as with Solr this is built on top of Lucene).
> >
> > We structure the data we index in ES in two layers - the ‘publication’
> > record, which is essentially where all the MARC metadata lives (although
> > not as MARC - we transform this to an internal scheme), and the ‘page’
> > records - one record per page in the item. The text content lives in the
> > page record, along with links to the image files for the page. The ‘page’
> > records are all what ES calls ‘child’ records of the relevant publication
> > record. We make this relationship through shared IDs in the MARC records
> > and the XML fulltext documents.
> >
> > We create a whole range of indexes from this data. Obviously field
> > specific searchs like title or author only search the relevant metadata
> > fields. But we also have a (default) ’search all’ option which searches
> > through all the metadata and fulltext. If the user wants to search the
> text
> > only, they check an option and we limit the search to only text from
> > records of the ‘page’ type.
> >
> > The results the user gets initially are always the publication level
> > records - so essentially your results list is a list of books. For each
> > result you can view ‘matches in text’ which shows snippets of where your
> > search term appears in the fulltext. You can then either click to view
> the
> > whole book, or click the relevant page from the list of snippets. When
> you
> > view the book, the software retrieves all the ‘page’ records for the
> book,
> > and from the page records can retrieve the image files. When the user
> goes
> > to the book viewer, we also carry over the search terms from their
> search,
> > so they can see the same text snippets of where the terms appear
> alongside
> > the book viewer - so the user can navigate to the pages which contain the
> > search terms easily.
> >
> > For more on the ES indexing side of this, Rob Tice from Knowledge
> > Integration did a talk about the use of ES in this context at the London
> > Elasticsearch usergroup [5]. Unfortunately the interface itself requires
> a
> > login, but if you want to get a feel for how this all works in the UI,
> > there is also a screencast which gives an overview of the UI available
> [6].
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Owen
> >
> > 1. https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk
> > 2. http://www.k-int.com
> > 3. http://www.gooii.com
> > 4. https://www.elastic.co
> > 5.
> >
> http://www.k-int.com/Rob-Tice-Elastic-London-complex-modelling-of-rich-text-data-in-Elasticsearch
> > 6. http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/support
> >
> > Owen Stephens
> > Owen Stephens Consulting
> > Web: http://www.ostephens.com
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> > Telephone: 0121 288 6936
> >
> > > On 27 Jan 2016, at 00:30, Laura Buchholz <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to understand how digital library systems work when there
> is a
> > > need to search both metadata and item text content (plain text/full
> > text),
> > > and when the item is made up of more than one file (so, think a
> digitized
> > > multi-page yearbook or newspaper). I'm not looking for answers to a
> > > specific problem, really, just looking to know what is the current
> state
> > of
> > > community practice.
> > >
> > > In our current system (ContentDM), the "full text" of something lives
> in
> > > the metadata record, so it is indexed and searched along with the
> > metadata,
> > > and essentially treated as if it were metadata. (Correct?). This causes
> > > problems in advanced searching and muddies the relationship between
> what
> > is
> > > typically a descriptive metadata record and the file that is associated
> > > with the record. It doesn't seem like a great model for the average
> > digital
> > > library. True? I know the answer is "it depends", but humor me... :)
> > >
> > > If it isn't great, and there are better models, what are they? I was
> > taught
> > > METS in school, and based on that, I'd approach the metadata in a METS
> or
> > > METS-like fashion. But I'm unclear on the steps from having a bunch of
> > METS
> > > records that include descriptive metadata and pointers to text files of
> > the
> > > OCR (we don't, but if we did...) to indexing and providing results to
> > > users. I think another way of phrasing this question might be: how is
> the
> > > full text of a compound object (in the sense of a digitized yearbook or
> > > similar) typically indexed?
> > >
> > > The user requirements for this situation are essentially:
> > > 1. User can search for something and get a list of results. If
> something
> > > (let's say a pamphlet) appears in results based on a hit in full text,
> > the
> > > user selects the pamphlet which opens to the file (or page of the
> > pamphlet)
> > > that contains the text that was matched. This is pretty normal and does
> > > work in our current system.
> > > 2. In an advanced search, a user might search for a name in the
> "author"
> > > field and a phrase in the "full text" field, and say they want both
> > > conditions to be fulfilled. In our current system, this won't provide
> > > results when it should, because the full text content is in one record
> > and
> > > the author's name is in another record, so the AND condition can't be
> > met.
> > > 3. Librarians can link description metadata records (DC in our case) to
> > > particular files, sometimes one to one, sometimes many to one,
> sometimes
> > > one to many.
> > >
> > > If this is too unclear, let me know...
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Laura Buchholz
> > > Digital Projects Librarian
> > > Reed College Library
> > > 503-517-7629
> > > [log in to unmask]
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Laura Buchholz
> Digital Projects Librarian
> Reed College Library
> 503-517-7629
> [log in to unmask]
>

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