Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

"Chad G. Hansen" wrote: > [...] Attached is a portion of a previously rejected proposal. > The section attached is our previous design/plan section for what we would > like to accomplish. Please don't send attachments to mailing lists unless it's usual practice (like sending a patch to a software

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

> Maria Soledad Pera, William Lund, and Yiu-Kai Ng, A Sophisticated Library > Search Strategy Using Kolksonomies and Similarity Matches > . Journal of the "In solving this problem, we propose an enhanced library system, which allows partial

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

Thank you for your responses. The design of the enhanced library search engine we would like to integrate with Koha can be found in the 2009 JASIST paper which was co-authored by several members of our team now. Here is the reference for that paper: Maria Soledad Pera, William Lund, and Yiu-Kai N

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

NoZebra mode is at a severe disadvantage in terms of featureset, performance, scalability, extensibility and basically everything (except ease of installation). I would not recommend that anyone who wants their feature to be used by even modestly sized libraries should develop it for NoZebra mode.

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

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 ta

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

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 rel

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

Koha uses two methods of searching in the OPAC, and in general. The first is through third party open source package from IndexData called Zebra. The second is NoZebra mode. My opinion is that applying your algorithm to the NoZebra mode would be the easiest option here. Unless you want to also