[Web4lib] Keyword searching in Endeavor Voyager

[Dale Askey]

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Heeding my own call for people to document what they're doing and share 
it around, I've posted instructions for fixing the keyword search in 
WebVoyage. Please take note of the origins of this script/fix, which was 
born at UCLA in 2004, modified thereafter by Yale, and again modified 
and extended by Harish Maringanti here at Kansas State. Instructions and 
code here:

http://ksulib.typepad.com/did/2006/04/voyager_keyword.html

A number of years ago, I heard Roy T give a speech on how nasty OPACs 
were (I'm sure many of us on this list have heard or read his excellent 
views on the subject), and the main thing that stuck with me was the 
post-processing of the query, i.e.- taking whatever the user has put in 
and using the intelligence of the system to make something coherent out 
of it. UCLA's work to fix the very deficient native Voyager keyword 
search was just such a thing.

Dale

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Dale Askey
Web Development Librarian
KSU Libraries
118 Hale Library
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-7672