Closed mbertrand closed 5 years ago
Sample course document in ES:
{
"course_id":"MITx/3.072x/1T2015",
"short_description":"An upper-level undergraduate engineering course that explores the structure and symmetry of materials and the profound effect that structure has on physical properties of materials.",
"full_description": "<p>In <em>3.072x: Symmetry, Structure, and Tensor Properties of Materials</em>, you will study the underlying structures of materials and deepen your understanding of the relationship between the properties of materials and their structures. Topics include lattices, point groups, and space groups in both two and three dimensions; the use of symmetry in the tensor representation of crystal properties; and the relationship between crystalline structure and properties, including transport properties, piezoelectricity, and elasticity. Two course projects will allow students to explore their particular interests in greater depth. </p>\n<h3><strong>FAQ</strong></h3>\n<p><strong>Who can register for this course?</strong><br />\nUnfortunately, learners from Iran, Sudan and the Crimea region of Ukraine will not be able to register for this course at the present time. While edX has received a license from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer courses to learners from Iran and Sudan our license does not cover this course. Separately, EdX has applied for a license to offer courses to learners in the Crimea region of Ukraine, but we are awaiting a determination from OFAC on that application. We are deeply sorry the U.S. government has determined that we have to block these learners, and we are working diligently to rectify this situation as soon as possible.</p>",
"language":"en-us",
"semester":"spring",
"year":2015,
"start_date":"2015-02-10T00:00:00Z",
"end_date":"2015-05-20T14:00:00Z",
"enrollment_start":null,
"enrollment_end":null,
"course_title":"Symmetry, Structure and Tensor Properties of Materials",
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"object_type":"course",
"instructors":[
"Eugene Fitzgerald",
"Richard Taylor"
],
"topics":[
"Engineering",
"Physics",
"Chemistry"
],
"prices":[
{
"price":0,
"mode":"honor"
},
{
"price":100,
"mode":"verified"
}
]
}
@mbertrand in the context of search, maybe full_description is more useful than short description ? or maybe both ?
I'll include both
I have a couple of questions / thoughts:
Here's a sample OCW doc:
{
"course_id": "4007b067a3db229b6e789bfbb56a409d",
"short_description": "General principles of motor control in biological systems. Structure and function of sensory receptors. Muscle structure and reflex arcs. Spinal cord. Locomotion. Oculomotor control. Cerebellar structure and function. Motor thalamus. Basal ganglia. Somatosensory cortex: maps and neuronal properties. Cortical plasticity. Motor psychophysics and computational approaches to motor control, and motor planning.",
"full_description": null,
"platform": "ocw",
"language": null,
"semester": "Spring",
"year": 2002,
"start_date": null,
"end_date": null,
"enrollment_start": null,
"enrollment_end": null,
"course_title": "Somatosensory and Motor Systems",
"course_image": "",
"object_type": "course",
"instructors": [
"Emilio Bizzi",
"Mriganka Sur",
"Peter Schiller",
"Ann Graybiel"
],
"topics": [],
"prices": [{
"price": 0,
"mode": "audit"
}]
}
@pdpinch:
For department, there is a department_number
field in the raw json for OCW courses. Example values are 21W
, 11
Course number for both OCW and EdX courses? For OCW, there is a master_course_number
in the raw JSON - sample values are 730-3
, 945
. For EdX, would it be a subset of the course id (course-v1:MITx+6.341x_2+2T2016
, MITx/8.MReV/2013_Summer
, etc)?
department_numbers
is a fine identifier for OCW, but it would be nice to expand that to the full text of the department, because it would help search.
For OCW, I am confused by the master_course_number
examples that you mention. I'm expecting something more like 6.002
Maybe you can point me to a complete example?
For edX, we'll have to extract the number from the course id/key. I can help with a regex, but it's basically the middle part of the key (either +
or /
separated) and cut off the _
and anything that follows. So course-v1:MITx+6.341x_2+2T2016
=> 6.341x
and MITx/8.MReV/2013_Summer
=> 8.MReV
).
department_numbers
is a fine identifier for OCW, but it would be nice to expand that to the full text of the department, because it would help search.
For OCW, I am confused by the master_course_number
examples that you mention. I'm expecting something more like 6.002
Maybe you can point me to a complete example?
For edX, we'll have to extract the number from the course id/key. I can help with a regex, but it's basically the middle part of the key (either +
or /
separated) and cut off the _
and anything that follows. So course-v1:MITx+6.341x_2+2T2016
=> 6.341x
and MITx/8.MReV/2013_Summer
=> 8.MReV
).
Some feedback on the sample OCW doc:
Here is the raw_json
from an OCW course, the master_course_number
is 430
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'ocw_feature_notes': '',
'ocw_feature_url': '',
'ocw_speciality': '',
'ocw_subfeature': 'Media Studies'},
{'ocw_feature': 'Fine Arts',
'ocw_feature_notes': '',
'ocw_feature_url': '',
'ocw_speciality': 'Digital Media',
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'course_embedded_media': {},
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'ocw_feature_notes': '',
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"<a href="http://thinking-about-art.blogspot.com/2007/11/aging-face-of-rembrandt.html">The Aging Face of Rembrandt</a>." <em>Thinking About Art</em>. Blog post with embedded video not produced by the author. November 27, 2011.</p> <p>Stevens, Wallace. "<a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-13ways.html">Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird</a>." 1917.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row"> <td>3</td> <td>Thresholds of Serial: Rembrandt (cont.)</td> <td><p>[DS] Episodes 1 & 2<em>.<br /> </em></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691040613/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Chapman, H. Perry. "The Self Fashioned." In <em>Rembrandt\'s Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity</em>. Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780691040615.</p> <p>Koerner, Joseph Leo. "<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/20166751">Rembrandt and the Epiphany of the Face</a>." <em>RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics</em>, no. 12 (1986): 5–32.</p> <p>Schwartz, Frederic. "\'<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/20166816">The Motions of the Countenance\': Rembrandt\'s Early Portraits and the Tronie</a>." <em>RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics</em>, no. 17/18 (1989): 89–116.</p> <p>Auden, W. H. "<a href="http://english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/auden.html">Musée des Beaux Arts</a>." 1938.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>4</td> <td>Sequence and Argument: Goya</td> <td><p>Goya, Francisco. <a href="http://www.richardharrisartcollection.com/portfolio-view/francisco-goya-2/"><em>The Disasters of War</em> (1810–1820)</a>.<br /> <img src="/images/inacessible.gif" alt="This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader." /><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21l/21l.430/s13/MIT21L_430S13_Goya_1.pdf">Prints 1–30 (PDF - 17.2MB)</a><br /> <img src="/images/inacessible.gif" alt="This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader." /><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21l/21l.430/s13/MIT21L_430S13_Goya_2.pdf">Prints 31–60 (PDF - 17.5MB)</a><br /> <img src="/images/inacessible.gif" alt="This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader." /><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21l/21l.430/s13/MIT21L_430S13_Goya_3.pdf">Prints 61–83 (PDF - 14.7MB)</a><br /> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Los_desastres_de_la_guerra">Gallery at Wikimedia Commons</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 0375711287/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Hughes, Robert. "War with Napoleon." In <em>Goya</em>. Knopf, 2006. ISBN: 9780375711282.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row"> <td>5</td> <td>Sequence and Argument: Goya (cont.)</td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 3.</p> <p>Goya, <em>The Disasters of War (cont.)</em></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0299137007/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Hults, Linda C. "The Print and Socio-Political Reform: Hogarth and His Heirs and Goya." In <em>The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History</em>. University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780299137007.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>6</td> <td>Inventing the Multiverse: Comics</td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 4.</p> <p>Eco, Umberto, and Natalie Chilton. "<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/464920">The Myth of Superman</a>." <em>Diacritics</em> 2, no. 1 (1972): 14–22.</p> <p>Burgas, Greg. "<a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/10/25/compressed-storytelling-versus-decompressed-storytelling-pros-and-cons/">Compressed Storytelling versus Decompressed Storytelling</a>." Reblogged by Brian Cronin at ComicBookResources.com. October 25, 2007.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1433101076/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Rhoades, Shirrel. Chapters 2, 4, 5, and 6 in <em>A Complete History of American Comic Books</em>. Peter Lang, 2008. ISBN: 9781433101076. [Preview with <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=O16BXbITZwEC&&pg=PAfrontcover">Google Books</a>]</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row"> <td>7</td> <td>Motion Studies: Photography</td> <td><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674007840/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Doane, Mary Ann. "Zeno\'s Paradox: The Emergence of Cinematic Time," and "Temporality, Storage, Legibility: Freud, Marey, and the Cinema." In <em>The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive</em>. Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780674007840.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767929403/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Ball, Edward. <em> The Inventor and the Tycoon</em>. Anchor, 2013, pp. 15–21, 71–2, 119–25, and 306–29. ISBN: 9780767929400.</p> <p>Edweard Muybridge, photographs.</p> <p>Duchamp, Marcel. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-XqtscwAOzg/TLg6sYaOWuI/AAAAAAAAAwA/kNB8kOJOWu0/s1600/nude+_no2.jpg"><em>Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2</em></a>. 1912.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>8</td> <td>The Challenge of Formula: Journalism<br /> <em>Guest speaker: Alexandra Garcia, The Washington Post</em></td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 5.</p> <p>Darnton, Robert. "<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024337">Writing News and Telling Stories</a>." <em>Daedalus</em> 104, no. 2 (1975): 175–94.</p> <p>"<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/artsandliving/scene-in/index.html?order=chronological&episode=5">Scene In</a>" (4 episodes). WashingtonPost.Com. Web video series.</p> <p>Heath, Chris. "<a href="http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201203/terry-thompson-ohio-zoo-massacre-chris-heath-gq-february-2012">18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio</a>." <em>GQ</em>, March 2012.</p> <p>Jones, Chris. "<a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/zanesville-0312">Animals</a>." <em>Esquire</em>, March 2012.</p> <p>Ogles, Jonah. "<a href="http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/features/man-or-beast3/">Man or Beast?</a>" <em> Cincinnati</em>, March 1, 2012.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row"> <td>9</td> <td>The Challenge of Formula: Journalism (cont.)</td> <td><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156033070/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Orwell, George. "Boys\' Weeklies." In <em>All Art Is Propaganda</em>. Mariner Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780156033077.</p> <p><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262631594"><img alt="Buy at MIT Press" src="/images/mp_logo.gif" /> </a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262631598/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium is the Message." In <em>Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man</em>. The MIT Press, 1964. ISBN: 9780262631594.</p> <p>Stevens, Wallace. "<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/3778">Anecdote of the Jar</a>." 1919.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>10</td> <td>Stasis and Progress: Tennyson, <em>In Memoriam</em></td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 6.</p> <p>[AT] Prologue. pp. 1–7, 9, 18, 27–30, 34, and 47–8.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801834716/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Sacks, Peter. "Interpreting the Genre: The Elegy and the Work of Mourning." In <em>The English Elegy</em>. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780801834714.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156005557/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Woolf, Virginia. <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997, pp. 73–4. 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"<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N01/N01407_10.jpg">Pegwell Bay, Kent—A Recollection of October 5th 1858</a>." 1860.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>12</td> <td>The Hero\'s Journey: Tennyson, <em>Morte D\'Arthur</em></td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 7.</p> <p>Tennyson, Alfred Lord. 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"Introducing the Serial." In <em>The Victorian Serial</em>. University of Virginia Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780813913148.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>14–16</td> <td>Whole Into Parts: Charles Dickens, <em>Bleak House</em></td> <td><p>Dickens, Charles. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1023"><em>Bleak House</em></a>. 1853.</p> <p>[DS] Episode 9.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822311100/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Miller, J. Hillis. "Interpretation in Bleak House." In <em>Victorian Subjects</em>. Duke University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780822311102.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814204597/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Altick, Richard D. "English Publishing and the Mass Audience in 1852." In <em>Writers, Readers, and Occasions</em>. Ohio State University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780814204597.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row"> <td>17</td> <td>The Reader Replies: Sherlock Holmes</td> <td><p>Moretti, Franco. <a href="https://msu.edu/course/eng/487/johnsen/61.1moretti.pdf">"The Slaughterhouse of Literature." (PDF)</a> <em>MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly</em> 61, no. 1 (2000): 207–27.</p> <p>Conan Doyle, Arthur. <a href="/courses/literature/21l-430-popular-culture-and-narrative-serial-storytelling-spring-2013/syllabus-and-calendar/MIT21L_430S13_Adventure.pdf">"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (PDF - 1.5MB)</a>. <em>The Strand Magazine</em>, February 1892, 108-123. (note: this PDF is a scan of the original 1892 publication)</p> <p>Conan Doyle, Arthur. "<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661">The Adventure of the Red-Headed League</a>." In <em>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</em>. George Newnes Ltd, 1892.</p> <p>Conan Doyle, Arthur. "<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/834">The Final Problem</a>." In <em>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</em>. George Newnes Ltd, 1894.</p> <p><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21l/21l.430/s13/MIT21L_430S13_Holmes-new.pdf">Selected excerpts (PDF - 13.2MB)</a> from other Holmes Stories.</p> <h3 class="subsubhead">Optional Reading</h3> <p>Orwell, George. "<a href="http://orwell.ru/library/articles/decline/english/e_doem">Decline of the English Murder</a>," <em>Tribune</em>, February 15, 1946.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>18</td> <td>The Reader Replies: Sherlock Holmes (cont.)</td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 10.</p> <p>Jurgensen, John. "<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303740704577521300806686174">Binge Viewing: TV\'s Lost Weekends</a>," <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, July 13, 2012.</p> <p>Armisen, Fred, and Carrie Brownstein. "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQttrkzWOo4">Battlestar Galactica</a>." <em>Portlandia</em>. Selection of comedic sketch originally produced for prestige television, subsequently made available for marketing purposes. Broadway Video Television and IFC Original Productions, 2011.</p> <p>Armisen, Fred, Carrie Brownstein, et al. "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM0AI5T4wYo">Spoiler Alert</a>." <em>Portlandia</em>. Selection of comedic sketch originally produced for prestige television, subsequently made available for marketing purposes. Broadway Video Television and IFC Original Productions, 2013.</p> <p>Garcia, Alexandra, Jason Spingarn-Koff, et al. "<a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2013/01/27/downton-abbey-season-4-spoilers">Downton Abbey Spoiler Alert</a>." <em>Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News</em>. One minute segment of recorded forum session. MIT Communications Forum, 2013, 01:27:00–01:28:00.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822353806/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Condry, Ian. "Making a Cutting-Edge Anime Studio: The Value of the Gutter." In <em>The Soul of Anime</em>. Duke University Press Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780822353805.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row"> <td>19</td> <td>Parts Into Whole: Charlie Chaplin, <em>The Gold Rush</em></td> <td><p>Chaplin, Charlie. Selected short films & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt-_DXC-aik"><em>The Gold Rush</em></a>. 1925.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0023770759/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> Mast, Gerald and Bruce F. Kawin. "Mark Sennett and the Chaplin Shorts," and "The Comics." In <em>A Short History of the Movies</em>. 6th ed. Allyn & Bacon, 1996. ISBN: 9780023770753.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>20</td> <td>Parts Into Whole: Charlie Chaplin, <em>Modern Times</em></td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 11.</p> <p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027977/"><em>Modern Times</em></a>. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Black and White, 87 min. 1936.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row"> <td>21</td> <td>Remediation: The Wire</td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 12.</p> <p>Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. <a href="http://lmc.gatech.edu/~objork3/1101/fall07/remediation.pdf">"Remediation." (PDF)</a> <em>Configurations</em> 4, no. 3 (1996): 311–58.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>22</td> <td>Remediation: The Wire (cont.)</td> <td><p>[DS] Episode 13.</p> <p>Mittell, Jason. "<a href="http://justtv.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/the-wire-and-the-serial-procedural-an-essay-in-progress/">All in the Game: The Wire, Serial Storytelling, and Procedural Logic</a>." 2007.</p> <p>Anderson, Paul Allen. "<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crt.2010.0043">\'The Game Is the Game\': Tautology and Allegory in The Wire</a>." <em> Criticism</em> 52, no. 3–4 (2010): 373–98.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="row"> <td>23</td> <td>Remediation: The Wire (cont.)</td> <td><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576876020/ref=nosim/mitopencourse-20"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" src="/images/a_logo_17.gif" alt="Buy at Amazon" /></a> DeLyria, Joy, and Sean Michael Robinson. <em>Down in the Hole: The UnWired World of H. B. Ogden</em>. powerHouse Books, 2012. ISBN: 9781576876022.</p> <p>Owen, Paul. "<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2010/apr/06/wire-charles-dickens-season-5-episode-8-dickensian">The Wire Re-Up: Season Five, Episode Eight—The Dickensian Aspects</a>." <em>TheGuardian.com: Organ Grinder Blog</em>, April 5, 2010.</p></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-row"> <td>24–25</td> <td>Class presentations</td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p> </p>',
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)I will map department ids to names based on this page: http://web.mit.edu/facts/academic.html
As discussed in slack, we're going to drop the department and course numbers fields for now. They're not worth the extra effort.
@pdpinch, the topics
field for Course
objects currently just saves the topic name, but the raw_json
will have details on the nested topics. Here's one example:
course.topics
:
['Engineering', 'Business & Management']
course.raw_json.course_collections
:
[{'ocw_feature': 'Business',
'ocw_feature_notes': '',
'ocw_feature_url': '',
'ocw_speciality': '',
'ocw_subfeature': 'Operations Management'},
{'ocw_feature': 'Engineering',
'ocw_feature_notes': '',
'ocw_feature_url': '',
'ocw_speciality': '',
'ocw_subfeature': 'Aerospace Engineering'},
{'ocw_feature': 'Engineering',
'ocw_feature_notes': '',
'ocw_feature_url': '',
'ocw_speciality': '',
'ocw_subfeature': 'Systems Engineering'}]
For purposes of searching by these, what do you think of appending the subfeatures to the topics in the ES doc?
topics: ['Engineering', 'Business & Management', 'Operations Management', 'Aerospace Engineering', 'Systems Engineering']
Actually it would probably be better to have these in a separate subtopics
field for when it comes to displaying topics in the search result details.
That OCW data structure seems overly-complicated. Let’s skip it until we have a better use case in mind.
@pdpinch https://github.com/pdpinch, the topics field for Course objects currently just saves the topic name, but the raw_json will have details on the nested topics. Here's one example:
Preliminary mapping: