[ckan-discuss] search operators

Mon Jun 21 13:41:03 BST 2010

Olav,

Good question about searching. We went for a Google-style keyword
search in CKAN, hence none of the classic operators or wildcards. The
particular implementation of the stemming though we have is not set-up
for compound words in various languages and would take some resource
to sort out.

We are currently working hard on moving to SOLR search which provides
much greater flexibility in setup and other features such as true
faceted search. We're basing the indexing on AMQP message queues and
when that is complete we'll get SOLR set-up for the various languages.
To keep track of our progress, here's the ticket:
http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/trac/ticket/353

David

2010/6/21 Olav Anders Øvrebø <olav at oov.no>:
> Search operators such as AND, OR, NOT and wildcards such as * for truncation
> are not implemented in CKAN today. Any plans for this? This is perhaps a
> bigger issue in languages like Norwegian and German where many words are
> formed by joining two words. Example: A registry of prescriptions
> (statistics) is called Reseptregisteret. If I search for 'resept*' I get
> nothing, but 'reseptregisteret' works.
> http://no.ckan.net/package/search?q=reseptregisteret&search=S%C3%B8k+i+pakker+%C2%BB
>
> All the best
> olav
>
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