Hi all,
As always, a new day brings a new Zebra idea. One of my librarians asked me if there was any way to get a list of Zebra indexes (particularly for Record Matching Rules), and I was all prepared to say no. when I remembered something I read the other day. It turns out you can send the query "@attr exp1 1=1 attributedetails" to the magical database "IR-explain-1", and it will give you a list of all the indexes in that database along with the type of index and how many documents are indexed against that index in the database. I think this is something that we should add to Koha! I'm not familiar with Koha's use of Elasticsearch, but I imagine there is an easy way of getting a list of Elasticsearch indexes? -- Of course, while having a list of indexes is good, it would be nice to know what MARC data is in each of those indexes. I'm thinking about creating a Koha Plugin that parses "biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml" and shows a user-friendly view of what parts of the MARC record are put into which indexes. -- What do folk think about that? I think having a list of Zebra indexes would be very useful for Record Matching Rules, but also for a "Search tips" guide for the Staff Interface and OPAC. While we could provide a static list of indexes, but I think that would be too much of a maintenance burden. I think having a list from Zebra (or Elasticsearch), which we could cache in Memcached, would be the way to go. Ideally, we could have an API route that surfaces this information, so that we could just do an AJAX lookup from a web interface. -- I'm hoping my librarian will sponsor development of a plugin, but I think this would be useful in the core Koha code. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595
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