Dumb question, no experience with the syntax, but should there be a
wildcard -or- use of something other than equals (sorry, if I'm way off
base, but most query syntax I use requires "like" or wildcarding).

-t

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

> 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
>