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