My metadata / technical librarian / repo admin loves the browse indices.
But, they're probably the only person. We keep adding additional fields,
probably so they can jump directly to items keyed with special metadata.
Peter Dietz
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Hilton Gibson <[email protected]>wrote:
> I tried using our browse index today (http://scholar.sun.ac.za) to find
> all titles with "knowledge economy". It did not work as well as the
> advanced search, which I assume is based on the solr discovery service. I
> am thinking of removing the browse indexes. We have
> discovery, advanced search and of course google scholar to do searches with.
>
> Are the browse indexes useful and accurate?
>
> Comments on the list welcome, I am sitting undecided, on the fence, with
> this one.
>
> Cheers
>
> hg
>
>
> On 20 May 2013 19:02, Sands Alden Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ivan, thanks for the pointer.
>>
>> This is one aspect of repo administration I've never had to deal with
>> in the past. It is possible that the previous tech lead on this project
>> modified those settings without re-running index-init.
>>
>> I assume there's no issue with rerunning index-init as many times as
>> needed? Do you have to rebuild the indexes after re-running that, or is
>> that just taken care of as part of the process?
>>
>> -Sands
>>
>> P.S. - hg, thanks for the link, it's useful to see your process written
>> out.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of helix84
>> [[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Monday, May 20, 2013 12:11 PM
>> *To:* Sands Alden Fish
>> *Cc:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-devel] Bizarre DSpace Browse Failure
>>
>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Sands Alden Fish <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> We have Discovery turned off. Any help or hints would be appreciated.
>>> The table "bi_2_dis" does not seem to be specified anywhere in the
>>> codebase.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Sands,
>>
>> the bi_2_dis table belongs to the second browse index
>> (webui.browse.index.2) and has to be regenerated after changing that
>> property. Those properties also have to be numbered sequentially with no
>> gaps.
>>
>> I'm only pointing that out because you tried to look it up in the
>> codebase, while it's in fact generated by index-init. I assume you have
>> tried running index-init, have you?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> ~~helix84
>>
>> Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette
>> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
>>
>>
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