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
>>
>
>

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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu