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Next generation of Oregon Digital ( https://oregondigital.org ) digital collections platform, built on Samvera Hyrax ( https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/ )
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Broader and narrower terms / alternate titles and names #37

Open straleyb opened 6 years ago

straleyb commented 6 years ago

Descriptive summary

Whichever way is decided, we would need to think about caching extra information pulled from endpoints. These pieces of information that would get indexed could help with searching and discovery within OD. For example, we could index alternate titles of subjects, like scientific names of the mandarine orange (Citrus reticulata) so if someone searches for its scientific name, they would be able to find the works that have mandarine orange as its subject.

Indexing Broader and Narrower terms could be useful as well depending on how broad and narrow someone went. If someone wanted to search for a mandarine orange, but just searched for orange, or if someone wanted to find the play "Cats" they could search for Play, or Musical, and still find cats.

This is all about expanding the discoverability in OD by ten fold. If there are any other ideas that folks have, it could be put here as well.

Expected behavior

When alternate titles, scientific names, broader or narrower terms are searched for, they bring up the proper works in the search terms. These terms pulled from an endpoint, will be indexed into the proper solr fields and configured for being searched for.

Related work

Indexing set up, controlled vocabularies set up, end points being hit and pulling proper info, info being indexed. Once all this work is all done and being worked on, this can be done.

jsimic commented 6 years ago

Would there be any indication of the broader/narrower relationship in the visible item metadata?

wickr commented 6 years ago

I think we have to show them, somehow. Otherwise you could get a search result for a term you don't ever see on the show page, which will be endlessly confusing.

jsimic commented 6 years ago

Agreed

wickr commented 6 years ago

There's an example/mockup on slide 28 here: https://swib.org/swib17/slides/khan_linking-the-data.pdf

straleyb commented 6 years ago

I like that example, but I think maybe we shouldn't display the uri at the end? Also, one question is, how far broader or narrower do we want to go?

vantuyls commented 6 years ago

@mccallum thoughts on what this should look like?

jsimic commented 5 years ago

POSM reviewed. Closed. Not MVP.