Franklin Is Missing

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 28th, 2018, 9:13 am

When I do a search for Ben or Benjamin Franklin in the LV catalog, my solo below does not show up. I guess it's because Ben or Benjamin isn't in the title? How can I fix this problem? Also holds true for IA.

https://librivox.org/the-many-sided-franklin-by-paul-leicester-ford/

Post by **TriciaG** » June 28th, 2018, 9:40 am

Well, his first name isn't in the title, and like you say, he's not the author. So searching by title or author for "Benjamin (or Ben) Franklin" won't return the result.

It is in the keywords, but the keyword search doesn't really work.

For our catalog, I can't think of anything to cause it to show up, other than changing the search term (using just "Franklin" will bring it up). I can't think of anything to add to the catalog entry to make it show in a search result for Benjamin Franklin.

This is true of plenty of other books as well. If would be helpful if the keyword search worked correctly - that would be the ultimate solution.

At Archive, if you search "Benjamin Franklin Librivox" it does come up.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 28th, 2018, 10:27 am

Thanks, Tricia. It's a pity LV's keywords don't work properly, and that IA doesn't pick up the keywords listed. Knowledge these days depends on things being searchable/findable. Please tell me that's on LV's wish list.

Post by **TriciaG** » June 28th, 2018, 10:58 am

Archive does pick up the listed keywords.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 28th, 2018, 11:16 am

Okay I see it does list them. I shall have to pay more attention to adding meaningful keywords on future projects.

Post by **knotyouraveragejo** » June 28th, 2018, 5:55 pm

The keyword search in the LV catalog works, but the keywords need to be entered in the database as single words. So if I add 'Benjamin' and 'Franklin' as individual keywords, then a keyword search for Benjamin Franklin does your solo. It's because it was only coded to search terms with the Boolean operator 'and' not 'or' which means it has to be an exact match to the keywords as entered. This is on the list to be fixed to work more like you would expect.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 28th, 2018, 9:27 pm

So is it possible to go in and change the keyword in my catalogued project to say Benjamin, Ben, Franklin?

Post by **TriciaG** » June 29th, 2018, 5:50 am

I've done this, but so far it's not affecting the search results. I think the search cache has to refresh before it'll take effect (an hour or two).

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 29th, 2018, 9:37 am

Okay thanks, Tricia. I'll try it I a bit, and hope it works. And thanks Jo for letting me know it's on the list. Search is so important, from the old library card catalog days to the present "Google phenomenon" (even though I find Bing produces more targeted results).