Comments for Robot Librarian http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com Disclaimer: I'm not actually a robot. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:57:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on New interest in MARC-HASH / JSON by Dilettante's Ball » Blog Archive » For your consideration: yet another MARC-in-JSON proposal pt. 1 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/new-interest-in-marc-hash-json/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Dilettante's Ball » Blog Archive » For your consideration: yet another MARC-in-JSON proposal pt. 1 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:57:02 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/?p=204#comment-681 <p>[...] far we have two well-publicized suggestions: one by Bill Dueber, at the University of Michigan; and one by Andrew Houghton, who works at OCLC Research. They are quite different and each have [...]</p> [...] far we have two well-publicized suggestions: one by Bill Dueber, at the University of Michigan; and one by Andrew Houghton, who works at OCLC Research. They are quite different and each have [...]

]]> Comment on Solr: Forcing items with all query terms to the top of a Solr search by Jonathan Rochkind http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/solr-forcing-items-with-all-query-terms-to-the-top-of-a-solr-search/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Jonathan Rochkind Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:08:03 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/solr-forcing-items-with-all-query-terms-to-the-top-of-a-solr-search/#comment-679 <p>Bah, that got rid of my brackets. let's try again without brackets, but this is defaults in solrconfig.xml</p> <p>str name="bf" map(query($all_terms),0,0,0,100000.0) /str</p> <p>str name="all_terms" {!dismax qf=text pf='' bf='' bq='' mm='100%' v=$q} /str</p> Bah, that got rid of my brackets. let’s try again without brackets, but this is defaults in solrconfig.xml

str name=”bf” map(query($all_terms),0,0,0,100000.0) /str

str name=”all_terms” {!dismax qf=text pf=” bf=” bq=” mm=’100%’ v=$q} /str

]]> Comment on Solr: Forcing items with all query terms to the top of a Solr search by Jonathan Rochkind http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/solr-forcing-items-with-all-query-terms-to-the-top-of-a-solr-search/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Jonathan Rochkind Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:07:03 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/solr-forcing-items-with-all-query-terms-to-the-top-of-a-solr-search/#comment-678 <p>Here's my refinement, which avoids the need for the client to send the qq, everything is just computed based on existing 'q'.</p> <p>map(query($all_terms),0,0,0,100000.0) {!dismax qf=text pf='' bf='' bq='' mm='100%' v=$q}</p> <p>Seems to work to do the same thing yours does. Of course, now this is indeed by default applied to every single query, including queries it doesn't make any sense for (or may even error for?) like queries that weren't originally dismax (like 'advanced' search).</p> <p>Not quite sure the best way to deal with this in blacklight, just playing around with different approaches to this functionality, seeing which will require the least code. :)</p> Here’s my refinement, which avoids the need for the client to send the qq, everything is just computed based on existing ‘q’.

map(query($all_terms),0,0,0,100000.0) {!dismax qf=text pf=” bf=” bq=” mm=’100%’ v=$q}

Seems to work to do the same thing yours does. Of course, now this is indeed by default applied to every single query, including queries it doesn’t make any sense for (or may even error for?) like queries that weren’t originally dismax (like ‘advanced’ search).

Not quite sure the best way to deal with this in blacklight, just playing around with different approaches to this functionality, seeing which will require the least code. :)

]]> Comment on Solr: Forcing items with all query terms to the top of a Solr search by Naomi Dushay http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/solr-forcing-items-with-all-query-terms-to-the-top-of-a-solr-search/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Naomi Dushay Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:36:08 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/solr-forcing-items-with-all-query-terms-to-the-top-of-a-solr-search/#comment-677 <p>More questions:</p> <p>couldn't you have set mm higher, or did you want to make sure you still got the more comprehensive result set?</p> <p>I'm also wondering if there are other ways to reduce the importance of the size-of-the-document.</p> <p>Have you also tweaked for unstemmed matches >> stemmed matches (cooking vs. cooked)</p> <p>and for proximity using the pf and ps boosts?</p> More questions:

couldn’t you have set mm higher, or did you want to make sure you still got the more comprehensive result set?

I’m also wondering if there are other ways to reduce the importance of the size-of-the-document.

Have you also tweaked for unstemmed matches >> stemmed matches (cooking vs. cooked)

and for proximity using the pf and ps boosts?

]]> Comment on Solr: Forcing items with all query terms to the top of a Solr search by Naomi Dushay http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/solr-forcing-items-with-all-query-terms-to-the-top-of-a-solr-search/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Naomi Dushay Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:31:05 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/solr-forcing-items-with-all-query-terms-to-the-top-of-a-solr-search/#comment-676 <p>So what sort of relevancy testing did you use to confirm the new way is better than the old way? Nice repeatable, automate-able tests, right?</p> So what sort of relevancy testing did you use to confirm the new way is better than the old way? Nice repeatable, automate-able tests, right?

]]> Comment on New interest in MARC-HASH / JSON by Coffee|Code : Dan Scott http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/new-interest-in-marc-hash-json/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Coffee|Code : Dan Scott Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:40:20 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/?p=204#comment-667 <p><strong>File_MARC 0.6.0 - now offering two tasty flavours of MARC-as-JSON output...</strong></p> <p>I've just released the PHP PEAR library File_MARC 0.6.0. This release brings two JSON serialization output methods for MARC to the table: toJSONHash() returns JSON that adheres to Bill Dueber's proposal for the array-oriented MARC-HASH JSON format at...</p> File_MARC 0.6.0 – now offering two tasty flavours of MARC-as-JSON output…

I’ve just released the PHP PEAR library File_MARC 0.6.0. This release brings two JSON serialization output methods for MARC to the table: toJSONHash() returns JSON that adheres to Bill Dueber’s proposal for the array-oriented MARC-HASH JSON format at…

]]> Comment on Data structures and Serializations by Jakob http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/data-structures-and-serializations/comment-page-1/#comment-665 Jakob Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:03:50 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/?p=235#comment-665 <p>Yes, FRBR is one example of a Domain Model - librarians can do this. But with FRBR they failed to define a serialization. Domain Models help you to <em>talk</em> about things with human beings. But to exchange data you need a serialization of the model. I agree that the model must come first, but when you stop there, you end up doing no data exchange but philosophy (which is nice too).</p> Yes, FRBR is one example of a Domain Model – librarians can do this. But with FRBR they failed to define a serialization. Domain Models help you to talk about things with human beings. But to exchange data you need a serialization of the model. I agree that the model must come first, but when you stop there, you end up doing no data exchange but philosophy (which is nice too).

]]> Comment on New interest in MARC-HASH / JSON by thatcher http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/new-interest-in-marc-hash-json/comment-page-1/#comment-661 thatcher Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:37:05 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/?p=204#comment-661 <p>http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008660390/marc?fo=json&at=marc</p> http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008660390/marc?fo=json&at=marc

]]> Comment on Sending MARC(ish) data to Refworks by Ali http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/sending-marcish-data-to-refworks/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Ali Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:59:00 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/?p=71#comment-660 <p>Hi Bill,</p> <p>Good stuff. I will see if I can do similar for YorkU Vufind Instance.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Ali</p> Hi Bill,

Good stuff. I will see if I can do similar for YorkU Vufind Instance.

Cheers,

Ali

]]> Comment on Why RDA is doomed to failure by Bruce http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/why-rda-is-doomed-to-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Bruce Fri, 21 May 2010 23:54:29 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/why-rda-is-doomed-to-failure/#comment-659 <p>If you wonder whether this disconnect between computer science and library science (specifically cataloging) is real, stroll down your QA76 range of shelves sometime and marvel at the distribution of shelving locations for something like Oracle how-to books.</p> If you wonder whether this disconnect between computer science and library science (specifically cataloging) is real, stroll down your QA76 range of shelves sometime and marvel at the distribution of shelving locations for something like Oracle how-to books.

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