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Searching on a year "1938" doesn't return result that is expected

laurensorensen opened this issue · comments

commented

When searching on 1938 in the search bar with All Fields selected, the result only comes up with two results, one from 1946 and one where the identifier is H-1938.
URL to the search:
https://virtualtribunals-stage.stanford.edu/nuremberg?search_field=all_fields&q=1938

Would expect the one and only record from 1938 to show up on this search:
URL to the 1938 record (the year exists within a range... not sure if that is relevant):
https://virtualtribunals-stage.stanford.edu/catalog/mt839rq8746aspace_ae47fbe3b5a20b92d0f0d5947ea70d67

commented

I'm not sure I understand this. One has the resource identifier "H-5260_1938A_1" and the other has the resource identifier "H-1938". So both of those should show up. Are you suggesting that H-1594 should also show up since it has a date range that spans 1936-45?

If we wanted to satisfy this, we'd first have to recognize that the query "1938" was part of a date. Would we also support "1938-10" (Oct 1938) and "1938-10-23" ? What about other formats (e.g. "Oct 1938", "October 1938", "The 1930s", "193?")? I think this will be very challenging.

commented

It is totally fine that H-1938 and the other with that text as a string shows up, it's just bad that the date 1938 doesn't return anything even though there is a date range that includes 1938. I thought dates were able to be indexed for searching? Otherwise, I wouldn't be (as user) searching "all fields"... since date is a field.

commented

If it's a lot of work and out of scope for this workcycle, that's fine, I just think in the future we would like to be able to have users search a date in YYYY or YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD and return a record with that date associated.