1.3.1 - Browse by categories (Browse Index)

[janahoffmann]

Browse by main search categories, e.g. titles, authors, year, and most common search terms; - alphabetical index.

Precondition: Defined main categories.

Related bugs #181; #182; #183

[janahoffmann]

works fine for title and date

browse for S doesn't work - also gives results for words with 's' in the middle of the title

browse by year only works for intervalls...should also be possible for individual years e.g. 1850 ...

add browse category: journal title

[JiriFrank]

The main categories should be: Title Author Year Journal Title

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Tested several browse by Title, Author, Year.

Bugs in “Browse by Title”: Browse by “B” results starts with 8 items which doesn’t start by “B”. Browse by “C” – 23 items. Browse by “D” – 18 items. … Browse by “N” - more than 150 items. Matches for:dc_title__facet:N* dc_title__facet:n* The Browse option is evidently looking for term starting by “N” in whole metadata and not just in the title. Is it metadata problem or bug in browse option?

Browse by “S” – more than 300 items. There is another problem with metadata in this case. 98 titles starts with square bracket, which is probably caused by defect in metadata and probably also in OCR.

Bug in Browse by Author: The results are not sorted alphabetically. Manual alphabetical sorting option sorts the results just by the first author.

Bug in Browse by Year: The results are just from LANDOE content provider because the books have the year also in title and from UBER because of their specific date format. bug #171 For example by Browse by Year 1990 - Matches for: dc_date__facet:[1990 TO 2010] first items are from UBER and are sorted by wrong year (for example 1900) because of the different format of metadata.

[JiriFrank]

Testing of feature 1.3.1 - Browse by categories

Feature description from the Catalogue of user requirements:

Browse by main search categories, e.g. titles, authors, year, and most common search terms; - alphabetical index.

Precondition: Defined main categories.

Testers: @AntonioGVH @fwelter @heimor @janahoffmann @JFTester @JiriFrank @LarissaS

[JiriFrank]

Testing of feature 1.3.1 - Browse by categories

Feature description from the Catalogue of user requirements:

Browse by main search categories, e.g. titles, authors, year, and most common search terms; - alphabetical index.

Precondition: Defined main categories.

Testers: @fwelter

[LarissaS]

Testing of feature 1.3.1 - Browse by categories

Browse by Year is ok, but not for all collections. I noticed that "sorted by" remains the same as by previous browsing which is not logic, I would prefer browsing by year by default to be sorted by date, browsing by title to be sorted by title and browsing by author to be sorted by creator.

Browse by AUTHOR: B: sorting by creator sort by first author (from A to Z), while I want to sort authors starting with B! RMCA collection does not browse! Same problem is for browsing by Title, sorting does not work goed, strange highlights!

-----Original Message----- From: JiriFrank [mailto:reply@reply.github.com] Sent: 1 августа 2011 г. 10:31 To: Smirnova Larissa Subject: Re: [bhle] 1.3.1 - Browse by categories (#57)

Testing of feature 1.3.1 - Browse by categories

Feature description from the Catalogue of user requirements:

Browse by main search categories, e.g. titles, authors, year, and most common search terms; - alphabetical index.

Precondition: Defined main categories.

Testers: @AntonioGVH @fwelter @heimor @janahoffmann @JFTester @JiriFrank @LarissaS

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/bhle/bhle/issues/57#issuecomment-1698757

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11/8/2011 - Filtered through antispam by ICT

[AntonioGVH]

I was curios to see how was the ordering of the output browsing by authors, specially for those languages that have diacritic characters. However, the output seems to be more or less arbitrary. I mean:

• browsing by authos with 'G' one expects to get works ordered by 'Ga...' 'Gb...' 'Gc...' etc ( if any)

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Quoting JiriFrank:

Testing of feature 1.3.1 - Browse by categories

Feature description from the Catalogue of user requirements:

Browse by main search categories, e.g. titles, authors, year, and most common search terms; - alphabetical index.

Precondition: Defined main categories.

Testers: @AntonioGVH @fwelter @heimor @janahoffmann @JFTester @JiriFrank @LarissaS

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/bhle/bhle/issues/57#issuecomment-1698757

[fwelter]

1.3.1 browse by title, author, year

title A

dc_title__facet:A* dc_title__facet:a*

• results:
  1. NCB Naturalis (430)
  2. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (308)
  3. Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld (272)
  4. Helsingin yliopisto (13)
  5. Royal Museum for Central Africa (12)
• only titles that begin with A

title C

• results:
  1. NCB Naturalis (266)
  2. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (97)
  3. Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld (31)
  4. Helsingin yliopisto (13)
  5. Royal Museum for Central Africa (12)
• only titles that begin with C
• yellow marks for entire words that begin with C, also inside texts
• no title found from Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (there were some where titles began with C)

title S

• results:
  1. NCB Naturalis (639)
  2. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (171)
  3. Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld (46)
  4. University of Copenhagen (28)
  5. Helsingin yliopisto (16)
• no titles found for UB der Humboldt-Universität, Zweigbibliothek Museum für Naturkunde (there were some with S)

title N

• results:
  1. NCB Naturalis (546)
  2. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (475)
  3. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (175)
  4. Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld (116)
  5. Helsingin yliopisto (13)
• no titles found for Royal Museum for Central Africa (there were titles with N)

the title search did not work properly, but it was difficult to undserstand why some titles were listed and others not. I never found titles by UB der Humboldt-Universität, Zweigbibliothek Museum für Naturkunde Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

I only occasionally found titles by Royal Museum for Central Africa

author G

dc_creator__facet:G* dc_creator__facet:g*

• results:
  1. NCB Naturalis (244)
  2. Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld (123)
  3. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (63)
  4. UB der Humboldt-Universität, Zweigbibliothek Museum für Naturkunde (9)
• no title found from Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (there were some where author began with G)

author P

• results:
  1. NCB Naturalis (143)
  2. Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld (22)
  3. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (18)
• no title found from Helsingin yliopisto (there were some where author began with P)

the dc_creator authors were found, but not those where the author was under dc_contributor

year 1970

dc_date__facet:[1970 TO 1990]

• results: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (761)

only the dc_date dates was found, not the others which had the dates under dcterms_created and dcterms_issued

I probably understood why year and author did not display correct results (because the program was not searching in all concerned metadata fields), but not why the title browse search was not working properly.

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• when there were many results the page took long time to load in and blocked the mouse of my computer. this was because all the thumbnails needed to load in. it seems that also those thumbnails needed to load in that were not displayed on the screen. if I had installed to display 25 results in the hitlist and there were 1500 results the thumnails for all 1500 results loaded in. after that the computer was largely blocked and very slow, I tried to close the window as soon as possible and I also tried not to select search terms that produced so many results.
• nowhere was displayed how many titles were found in total, usually I listed the numbers given for data providers. only maximum 5 data providers were shown, I discovered this bug only very late in the testing process.
• it is also possible that Date, Language and the other facet lists had also restrictions for 5 lines to be shown only. I realised this only after 2 weeks testing.
• the big problem was that too many results were shown, mainly for two reasons:

1 - the result lists generally displayed titles where none of the words were contained in the title, author or year, but in the text of the abstract and notes of the item page.

2 - single journal volumes were displayed for serial runs, they blocked all intelligent search attempts and spammed the results list with over and over the same journal title.

• it was generally very difficult (better say, practically impossible) to test for completeness of results. restricting search for (1) only in title, author and date and (2) exclude journal metadata of single journal volume item pages (and instead create one single journal title hit) would probably solve the problems.

Francisco

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[lobajuluwa]

feature updates recently committed to GitHub by AK: Using Browse by relevance will help a great deal (i.e. browse by relevance, then alpha by title). We now have an extra field for browse by title.