[ckan-dev] Organization/group search

Thu Jan 24 13:44:38 UTC 2013

On 24 January 2013 13:32, David Raznick <david.raznick at okfn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ira,
>>
>> About this feature (see brief email conversation below).
>>
>> a) Am I right in thinking that you want to be able to search for an
>> organization on the organizations page?  you example was confusing as it
>> was a feature that is already in core.
>>
>> b) What exactly are we wanting.  My understanding is that currently we do
>> not index groups so we would have to do that to get similar functionality
>> to the dataset searches.
>>
>> c) Do we have faceting for groups?  can we tag them at the moment? I
>> don't think this is the case.
>>
>> d) A really crude search of org title and a sort by name asc/desc would
>> be easy (but not very feature rich or good) but more complex searching
>> would need the indexing.
>>
>
> I am happy with the crude search approach, possibly even with an
> autocomplete, to help find groups. The need for faceting is really not
> essential. The only things to facet on would be custom extras anyway.
>
> I just think we need a way, when there are >30 orgs/groups that people do
> not have to page through them all.
>
>

cool will do

>
>> e) The indexing approach would possibly take a while as I'm not a solr
>> expert - although I have toyed with it a bit recently.  It would probably
>> need a fair bit of new code.
>>
>
> I think indexing is overkill as there will never be huge amounts of
> groups/orgs.
>
>>
>> f) If we add this feature it would be available to orgs and groups
>>
>> I've cc'd dev-list after a quick irc chat with sean
>>
>> Toby
>>
>>
>>
>>>  2. Add search to http://geo.gov.ckan.org/organization [2 days, let us
>>>>>> know if there are issues etc]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> when you say add search what do you mean?  I assume you want like on
>>>>> http://geo.gov.ckan.org/dataset.  Do you want this also for groups?
>>>>> and is this for all ckan instances or just geo.gov?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think it's worth having this in core. By search - essentially I meant
>>>> like here: http://publicdata.eu/group/agriculture where there's a
>>>> search bar and relevant (not all) facets pulled from datasets belonging to
>>>> the group or org. I'd like the same for groups to keep it consistent and
>>>> support anyone who doesn't choose to use orgs.
>>>>
>>>> cool that's what I was thinking
>>>
>>
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