Match database search result order to LibGuides AZ database search

[maxkadel]

User story

When I use the AllSearch and choose to go to the original search service, it would be confusing to see a different search result.

Acceptance criteria

Searching against the database endpoint in the allsearch_api consistently gives the same result order as the LibGuides AZ database search - see https://libguides.princeton.edu/az.php

Concrete example

• Search oxford music in both, you will see a different order of results

Implementation notes, if any

• May want to change the weight of different fields, see weighted migration.

This ticket was broken out from #33. @VickieKarasic is checking in with vendor to see if we can find out more about their search weighting.

[VickieKarasic]

Springshare's response:

Both the A-Z Databases search and the LibGuides Search page results are determined by term relevancy with each field given equal weight.

• For A-Z database searches, these are the fields that are present when adding or editing a database: description, keywords, librarian note, more info, name, slug/friendly URL, subjects, URL, and vendor name

• The more times the search term(s) appear in these fields, the higher it will be ranked in the search results.

So it may be that "Oxford Scholarship Online: Music" has more mentions of Oxford and/or Music in its description, keywords, etc. than "Oxford Music" does and thus is shown higher on the results list.

[kevinreiss]

It seems like per @VickieKarasic's comment we can't really do much here.

[beth-german]

@kevinreiss will write new ticket that reflects feasible solution, this ticket will be closed.