[ckan-discuss] What objects should search match?

Wed Jul 10 22:36:23 BST 2013

It's intuitive if you know for sure that you want an organisation but
aren't interested in groups or datasets, or whatever. Does that sound
like most users though? If I want to search for stuff about 'climate'
on this portal, should I need to know to go to all those separate
pages to look for relevant things to explore?

I don't think it's all that intuitive anyway - I still do things like
go to the Organizations page, type something in the search box and
then realise it was the wrong search box and I'm getting only dataset
results.

I wasn't proposing mixed listings, as I said.

Mark

On 10/07/2013, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
> The current implementation (which I find clear and intuitive) is that
> you have a dedicated search on each page for each entity type
> (/organization, /group, /user).
> I also don't like mixed listings, I think they are really different to
> get right.
>
> Adrià
>
> On 9 July 2013 14:36, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Joshua Tauberer
>>> - http://razor.occams.info
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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