[ckan-discuss] Search function on the Data Hub

Thu May 10 17:25:24 BST 2012

Hmmm... bizarre - but yes, in an ideal world, from my perspective, it
would bring up datasets in the main body of the page, but also links
to the groups in the part of the page where currently groups unrelated
to my search term were found. Does that make sense?

Lucy

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:16 PM, David Raznick <kindly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The issue here is that using "Journalism" as a term in the query is causing
> a odd error.
> The search tries to prioritize things in titles and it also does stemming of
> Journalism to Journal, so anything with Journal(s) in the title is being
> moved ahead in prioirty.  Also "data" is so common that it does not help
> that much.
>
> Best solution for you is to put it in quotes "data journalism" i.e
>
> http://thedatahub.org/dataset?q=%22Data+Journalism%22
>
> From this it seems like having another field with the unstemmed terms
> weighted higher would give better results.  It may be also be worth us
> prioritizing group names higher and/or putting "data" as a stop word for us
> (one we ignore).
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 8 May 2012 11:04, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> > I recently created a group for the data journalism resources we use at
>> > training sessions in the Data Hub.
>> >
>> > It's here:
>> >
>> > http://thedatahub.org/group/data-journalism
>> >
>> > However, it's a bit cumbersome to get to easily, e.g. if I search 'Data
>> > Journalism' on the front page, it doesn't show up anywhere, I have to
>> > traipse through groups pages to get to the ones I am interested in.
>> >
>> > http://thedatahub.org/dataset?q=data+journalism
>>
>> Good question. Can I ask what exactly you want here?
>>
>> To find the data journalism group when you search
>> To find the datasets within that group or ...?
>> None of these ...
>>
>> > Any idea whether this could be improved from a usability perspective?
>>
>> Almost certainly yes.
>>
>> Rufus
>>
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