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That was a typo in my problem report, I'm afraid. I was actually searching Jansen, and that still exhibits the problems I mentioned. I've also moved this conversation to indexdata's own list for this service, at http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oclist (thanks to Jason Ronallo for bringing that list to my attention). Jonathan Joshua Santelli wrote: > You're not getting any hits because the name is not Jensen, it's Jansen. > I'm not sure where Jensen came from but the OAIster indexes here have > Jansen. > > josh > > > On 10/24/07 6:04 PM, "Jonathan Rochkind" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >> I'm messing with SRU search of http://indexdata.dk/opencontent/oaister >> >> I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in >> OAISter, called ""Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational >> Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures" >> by "Robert S. Jensen". >> >> I do an SRU search with query: >> dc.title = "Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories, >> Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures" >> And I find the record, one hit. Good. You too could try, and see what >> the DC returned looks like. It does have a dc:creator of Robert S. Jensen. >> >> But I try a search that includes the author. >> dc.title = "Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories, >> Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures" and dc.creator >> = "Jensen" >> >> 0 hits. >> and cql.serverChoice = "Jensen" => 0 hits >> >> Same using full name "Robert S. Jensen" (just as it appears in the >> record), with cql.serverChoice or dc.creator. >> >> Is this just a bad index, or is something else going on, or what? As I >> try sample searches on title and author, I keep running into false >> negatives for things that ought to be in the OAISter index. Sometimes I >> can figure out why (title not quite right; title has curly quotes, index >> does not, etc.), but in this case I have no idea. But the net result is >> it's hard to actually find your known item this way, via an automated >> search on known item metadata. >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Rochkind >> Digital Services Software Engineer >> The Sheridan Libraries >> Johns Hopkins University >> 410.516.8886 >> rochkind (at) jhu.edu >> > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu