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<p>The default "Keyword" search option causes ArchivesSpace to query
a single Solr index field called "fullrecord". That is a big,
unstructured free-text field containing everything the indexer
deems relevant to each record (and, as in this case, pulled in
from other things linked to it, such as agents.) As such, no
priority is given to any one note or text field.<br>
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<p>Why your example search for "suffrage" is returning that
particular record in third place is difficult to say. Have you set
up any boost (in config.rb or a plug-in) to increase the relevance
score of resources relative to other record types? That would
explain why it is in the top six, and why they're all resources.
Then other factors would come into play to determine the order
among resources, such as term frequency and relative size of each
record (the fewer distinct words, the more relevant Solr regards a
match within them to be.)</p>
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<p>Andrew.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/02/2021 10:39, Natalie Adams
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Dear all,</div>
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Now that we have completed the process of migrating legacy
catalogue records to ArchivesSpace we have a large number of
collections of personal papers available on our ArchivesSpace
PUI (<a href="https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/" id="LPlnk" moz-do-not-send="true">https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/</a>).
Some of them are of very prominent people who have
correspondingly long biographical history notes in their agent
record. Not all the information in a biographical history is
necessarily reflected in the contents of the archival
collection- e.g. for a collection of papers of a Nobel prize
winning scientist, the biog history would include information
about the scientific breakthrough that led to the award of the
Nobel even though the papers we have might relate solely to the
scientist's later work as Head of one of the Cambridge colleges.</div>
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We have noticed that relevance ranking of search results
prioritises information in the biographical history note of an
agent record, and will return hits tagged with an agent record
(whether or not the search term is found in the resource or
archival description data). In a search for suffrage (<a href="https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=suffrage&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=Search" id="LPlnk523045" moz-do-not-send="true">https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=suffrage&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=Search</a>)
on our system, the third hit in order of relevance (<a href="https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/7120" id="LPlnk206529" moz-do-not-send="true">https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/7120</a>)
appears to have no relevance to the search unless you visit the
agent record (<a href="https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/agents/people/8044" id="LPlnk239394" moz-do-not-send="true">https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/agents/people/8044</a>)
where the term suffrage is included. <br>
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We would be very interested to know whether other repositories
have experienced the same issue and have considered or been able
to make any adjustments to their systems.</div>
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Best wishes,</div>
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