Not sure if this is a bug. When I used the exact match feature in the search, I was puzzled that the title search retrieved zero result. Please see screenshots attached. What could be the indexing issue causing the zero result? Thank you.
–Jackie
Good question, Jackie — thank you for sharing this. I will look into it and get back to you.
Hi again,
It looks like it might be caused by the fact that there is an Original Work in the database titled:
…but the Publications of this Original Work have the full titles:
- Les Yohouré de Côte d’Ivoire : faire danser les dieux
- Les Yohouré de Côte d’Ivoire : faire danser les dieux
- Les Yohouré de Côte d’Ivoire, faire danser les dieux
Searching for the first title in Original Works currently yields one result (see Advanced search · Share-VDE (BETA)), and searching for one of the second titles in Publications yields results (see e.g. Advanced search · Share-VDE (BETA))
@jshieh , does this answer your question? And do you feel like there is anything problematic about the way the search behaves in this regard?
Does the search including every single word in the title field (all must be present and matched to qualify the exact match search)? Is the for search including $a and $b of MARC field 245. Partially matched with exact proximity (term appearing next to each other) is not a match?
The list of 3 publication titles appears to include subtitle (prefixed with MARC field 245 $b, following a punctuation of either colon <:> or comma <,>). Incidentally, the is initial article that would be usually ignored when conducting a right-anchored browse based search. Were there discussions about searches with/without initial article, ie, the, a, an, les, l’, la, las, etc. will yield to same results? Just curious.
Thanks so much for your help
–Jackie
Hi Jackie,
Thanks for your questions!
Partially matched with exact proximity (term appearing next to each other) is not a match?
As I understand it, partially matched texts of any kind will not constitute a match for this search type.
Incidentally, the is initial article that would be usually ignored when conducting a right-anchored browse based search. Were there discussions about searches with/without initial article, ie, the, a, an, les, l’, la, las, etc. will yield to same results?
Currently the articles are not ignored when searching for “begins with” or “exactly matches” via advanced search. I feel like I have heard this topic or similar topics being discussed e.g. in connection with Titles of original works starting with an article are left-stripped (#4549), but I am not sure to which extent this particular topic for this particular context has been discussed.
@tizianap might know if it has been discussed in the community?
And @a.gazzarini might know whether there are assumptions made out-of-the-box with the search technology we are using?
@jshieh, how would you expect the search to handle this? Does it currently behave differently than what you were expecting?