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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 >