Inventory & MARC authority search operators
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Overview
Basic query searches (not Query or Advanced search options)
Search | Description | Proposed/ supported Operator | Example | Inventory support | MARC authority support | Notes | Question(s) | Priority | Story |
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Exact phrase | Searches for text that contain all search terms in the order in which they are searched | “ “ | "Global africa" finds:
"Global africa" does not find:
| NOT SUPPORTED* | NOT SUPPORTED* | Supported in advanced search and query; HOWEVER, fuzzy logic and word stemming are applied. Requirement: remove |
| HIGH | |
Contains all | Searches for text that contain all search terms regardless of order | None | SUPPORTED | NOT SUPPORTED | Default search; Supported in advanced search and query MARC authority takes word order into account | LOW | |||
Contains any | Searches for text that contain any of the search terms regardless of order | None | NOT SUPPORTED* | NOT SUPPORTED* | Supported in advanced search and query | LOW | |||
Case sensitivity | Searches for text that contains terms, matching the case entered in the query | None | SUPPORTED - CERTAIN OPTIONS | SUPPORTED | Requests for making ALL searches case insensitive. *Only supported for full-text fields | HIGH | |||
Space handling | Searches for text that either contain the spaces in the query, or trim leading/trailing spaces from query | None | SUPPORTED | SUPPORTED | Requests for trimming/ leading spaces from query | N/A | |||
Masking - zero or more, leading | A zero or more character wildcard search, beginning with a wildcard | * | *chemistry finds:
| SUPPORTED | SUPPORTED |
| N/A | ||
Masking - zero or more, trailing | A zero or more character wildcard search, ending with a wildcard | * | surg* finds:
| SUPPORTED | SUPPORTED | N/A | |||
Masking - zero or more, internal | A zero or more character wildcard search, containing a wildcard within the term | * | wom*n finds:
| SUPPORTED | SUPPORTED | Supported at least for single character |
| N/A | |
Masking - single characters | A single character wildcard search | ? | wom?n finds:
O?brien finds:
| NOT SUPPORTED | NOT SUPPORTED | For MARC authority, wom?n seems to find "women" and "womyn" but not "woman" for some reason | MEDIUM | ||
Fuzzy logic | Searches for text that matches the term based on relevance (close match), as opposed to an exact match. | ~ | analytics~ finds:
| NOT SUPPORTED | NOT SUPPORTED | Seems to be supported, but without operator (see in1330403 in Poppy BF from a search of "analytics") MARC authority does NOT apply fuzzy logic in searches *marked as a Medium priority if it is removed from exact phrase searches; may be a use case for wanting to explicitly use fuzzy logic | MEDIUM | ||
Proximity | Contains two terms within a specific number of words of each other. Searches terms, not phrases. | ~ (followed by proximity value) | “biology diversity”~3 finds:
Does not find:
| NOT SUPPORTED | NOT SUPPORTED | LOW | |||
Word stemming | Applied by default; unable to disable |
| LOW | ||||||
Weighting | NOT SUPPORTED | NOT SUPPORTED | LOW |