[ckan-discuss] What objects should search match?

Tue Jul 9 14:36:08 BST 2013

I was thinking you could return them in separate lists. For example,
perhaps datasets are returned by default, but a button/link/tab lets
you choose results in Organizations and Groups instead. (Or some other
UI, but this gives the kind of idea I had in mind.)

Mark

On 09/07/2013, Joshua Tauberer <tauberer+consulting at govtrack.us> wrote:
> On 07/09/2013 08:51 AM, Mark Wainwright wrote:
>> It's a bit fiddly at the moment to search in CKAN for organizations
>> and groups. Should the normal search return these things as well as
>> datasets? (A bit like Facebook search returns people, groups, etc, or
>> Twitter search returns tweets, users, etc).
>>
>> Any views?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> Facebook is lucky that that UI works. Typically mixing/interleaving data
> types in search results comes out weird, usually because mixing
> relevancy rankings from multiple domains doesn't work. So you'll get
> e.g. all of the organizations on top because Solr gives them high scores
> for whatever reason. It also may violate user expectations, since users
> are probably expecting that a search on a data catalog will show
> datasets and not other (reified?) metadata.
>
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> - Joshua Tauberer
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