projectblacklight / arclight

A Rails engine supporting discovery of archival material
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Boost collection-level results #531

Open anarchivist opened 5 years ago

anarchivist commented 5 years ago

Collection-level results don't appear first; e.g. Ed Feigenbaum papers should appear for a search for feigenbaum.

From estimation discussion:

ggeisler commented 5 years ago

Issue #369 includes a design mockup that provides two views of the search results: one view is what we have now (all matching components sorted by relevance by default), and another view that groups results by collection.

We didn't implement that second view in the previous workcycle, likely due to lack of time, but from the comments in the issue it seems like it would take work but is technically feasible.

Would adding the Group by collection view to search results as shown in #369 address the concerns that prompted the creation of this ticket?

Or, maybe the solution is two-part, with both UI and indexing components: