Ian, The main goal behind the folksonomic aided searching, from what I understand (I was not on the team that developed this searching algorithm, I have been added as someone who can potentially help them get their algorithm into an existing ILS), is to improve relevance of the results.
I will talk to my team about this further to determine what improvements we are actually hoping for. Thanks, Chad On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Walls, Ian <ian.wa...@med.nyu.edu> wrote: > Chad, > > > > > > Neat! Always glad to have people volunteer to help make Koha better. > > > > When you say “improve” and “enhance” the search, what are your specific > goals? Faster retrieval time? More complex search options (nested > Booleans, more search fields, regex-style wildcards, etc.)? More relevant > relevance ranking? All of the above? Knowing more about the intended > result will help us determine how difficult the process might be. > > > > Thanks for your willingness to contribute; look forward to hearing more > from you! > > > > > > Ian Walls > > Systems Integration Librarian > > NYU Health Sciences Libraries > > 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016 > > (212) 263-8687 > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha.org [mailto: > koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha.org] *On Behalf Of *Chad G. Hansen > *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:18 PM > *To:* koha-devel@lists.koha.org > *Subject:* [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search > > > > I am part of a team of researchers in the Brigham Young University Computer > Science department who are interested in improving the searching used by > Koha's OPAC interface. > Others on the team have come up with a fast and effective way to do > searching using folksonomies and we are interested in adding that system to > one of the open-source library systems out there. We are considering both > Koha and Evergreen for this. > We would like to have the Koha communities involvement as much as possible. > > We would like to either enhance the existing search algorithm of Koha or > replace it with our own search. > > We would like to know if anyone is interested in being involved with this? > We would also like to get any pointers on how possible and how difficult > this might be for our team to do this, keeping in mind that we are newish to > the library specific protocols and formats (MARC, Z39.50, etc). > > Thanks for your consideration. > > -- > Thank you, > Chad Hansen > > e. c...@byu.edu > p. 801-477-0295 > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the > intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is proprietary, > confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any > unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you > have received this email in error please notify the sender by return email > and delete the original message. Please note, the recipient should check > this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The organization > accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this > email. > ================================= > > -- Thank you, Chad e. chans...@gmail.com e. c...@byu.edu p. 801-477-0295
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