Stacy, I'll address the points that are not answered in the proposal that Brooke linked to.
Does anyone know if switching from Zebra to Solr will let Koha > libraries use a stopwords list? > Solr allows the use of stopwords (as would a decent query parser such as the one I propose writing). However, the Solr code in Koha right now does not make use of the stopwords feature. To my mind, that is a good thing. If we used stopwords, the poetry journal The would be unfindable (and yes, there is such a journal: I had a nightmare and a half trying to find the record when I had an issue to catalog at the NYPL; thankfully their catalog doesn't throw away stopwords anymore). And things would be even worse when searching for French books. Consider the case of the À thé and Le thé. In the US we would probably search for "a the" and "le the." If someone can > Also, will Solr have any effect on fuzzy searching defaults? > It will. Fuzzy searching has completely different semantics in Solr compared to Zebra. We briefly noted that fact in the proposal, along with a footnote identifying the algorithms that Solr uses for fuzzy searching (and, yes, I am aware that the second algorithm listed is generally used as an alternate name for the first... I have no explanation of why the Solr docs used the two names like they were different). Whether the "fuzzy" behavior is closer to what you want I could not say. My personal preference, like yours, is to not be fuzzy, and just suggest better searches. Lastly, is there anyone sponsoring or working on a "did you mean..." > opac response to zero retrieval searches? At our library, we'd > probably choose a "did you mean..." spelling suggestion choice over > the automatic fuzzy spelling assumptions that are currently in the > system. I realize this would probably be listed in bugzilla, but I'm > not sure exactly how to search for this. > We have not yet added bugs for the various parts of the search rewrite. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcam...@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha