Search: dataverse alias not searchable #2898
Labels
Feature: Search/Browse
Type: Bug
a defect
User Role: Curator
Curates and reviews datasets, manages permissions
UX & UI: Design
This issue needs input on the design of the UI and from the product owner
Originally reported by @mcrosas and mentioned at #1928 (comment)
A search for https://dataverse.harvard.edu/?q=datapass (sadly) does not find https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/datapass . This is on v. 4.2.3 build 55-6561f58
I believe the reason for this is that dataverse aliases are indexed under the Solr field
identifier
and this field is not copied to the "catchall" Solr field ("text").However, this field is a
string
type rather than atext_en
...... so we may not want to simply copy it as is like this:
Rather, we might want to create and copy a
text_en
version instead specific to dataverse aliases for friendlier matches.In fact,
identifier
is also used for dataset persistent IDs and file (database) IDs, so we almost certainly don't want to blindly copyidentifier
into the catchall.Note: I realize this description is a bit dodgy but I'll clean it up later.
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