Searching in the collection discovery: exact search terms
In connection with Collection Discovery, a question has come up regarding usability:
Why is a search of exact search terms set and can we change this?
Example: Searching for the search term "kalender" in our sub-collection "Abschlussarbeiten Buch- und Medienwirtschaft und Publishing Management" of the top level collection "Abschlussarbeiten" does not return any hits. If you search for "kalender*", no hits are found either. However, there are a total of 2 titles with "kalender" in the title.
Can this behaviour be changed/improved? It makes it difficult for our users to access available media and they think we don't have anything in stock for the search term they sent.
Kenny Oliver Eckart
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Manu Schwendener commented
Reply from ExLibris via Proquest case:
"Collection Discovery was not designed as a text search tool, only recently we are seeing additions in this area, which is logical due to growing amount of data being presented in the Collection Discovery interface.
Search queries are matched against any search field (such as title, author, and subject) and may include any of the following search operators to provide a more complex search query: AND, OR, and NOT.
Our Product Manager is monitoring Primo Ideas on regular basis, so if there will be strong interest in this functionality, I am sure it will be considered for next Primo roadmap."
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Kenny Oliver Eckart
commented
Hi Manu, they are in the same collection. See my screenshot.
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I see why Ex Libris considers this a feature request
– search for full words is working
– truncated search is not workingBut Primo is _one_ product, the patrons see _one_ interface.
Having search not work consistently within the same product really feels like a bug. -
Hi Kenny
Your second example is in a different collection
https://katalog.bib.htwk-leipzig.de/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=49LEIP_HTWK:49LEIPHTWK_VU1&inst=49LEIP_HTWK&collectionId=8169385210002586&query=any,contains,Wandbildkalendermarktes(where it doesn't get found when searching for *kalender* or wandbildkalender*)
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Kenny Oliver Eckart
commented
Hi Manu,
yes, I have. Ex Libirs replied that there was no provision for this.
The second hit is Analyse des deutschen Wandbildkalendermarktes -
I can confirm that truncated search in collection discovery is not working.
On the first page of
https://basel.swisscovery.org/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&collectionId=81369883050005504 I see ''Allschwiler Wochenblatt".However, when I search for woche or woche*, I only get TagesWoche as a result.
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Hi Kenny
This sounds like a bug to me. Did you open a case with Ex Libris?
as you write; no hits for kalender
When I load all titles and search with ctfl+f, I see "Der Kalendermarkt in Deutschland" (no second title, though), so at least the search for
kalender*
should find this
https://katalog.bib.htwk-leipzig.de/permalink/49LEIP_HTWK/dni151/alma9915826302586
