<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for sending this, Jessica! Happy to have wrenches thrown in, especially if it can improve things broadly! </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Sorry for the long line of screenshots below, but I think this might be a relevant example--one use case I've been playing with is <i>The Beet Queen</i> by Louise Erdrich. Searching <b>beet queen</b> prompts Primo VE's search expansion with controlled vocabulary and includes "Louise Erdrich" in the search. <i>The Beet Queen </i>comes up as result #5 in an All I-Share Libraries search (boosting did slightly improve this; previously, our IWU holding, which is grouped in the #5 result, was #7).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_lwb4hw1f0" alt="image.png" width="656" height="625" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">However, if I click "Just search <i>beet queen</i>," <i>The Beet Queen </i>comes up as the #1 and #2 result (boosting also helped our copy rise to the top--our IWU holding is in the first 6-version FRBR group, which, prior to boosting, was the #7 result; the second 3-version FRBR group, which does not include our holding, was #1):</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_lwb4p9il1" alt="image.png" width="630" height="598" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>If I search <b>the beet queen</b>,<i> </i>the search expansion automatically comes up, but now <i>The Beet Queen</i> comes up as results #1 and #4. Our IWU holding is in result #4:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_lwb4ry2u2" alt="image.png" width="612" height="572" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div><br></div><div>And if I click "Just search <i>the beet queen," </i>the 3-version FRBR group is the #1 result with the 6-version FRBR group at #2:</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_lwb4una93" alt="image.png" width="615" height="568" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So, in this example, it seems like "the" is having an impact, but so is the search expansion (which we have not done any real testing on).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Based on the descriptions in the listserv messages, it does seem like this setting would help and be worth testing, if for nothing else than it doesn't seem like "the" should make that much of a difference in search results.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you!<br>Laura<br><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Laura Spradlin <i>(she/her/hers)</i><br>Electronic Resources & Systems Librarian<div>Assistant Professor, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.iwu.edu/library/__;!!DZ3fjg!_elE7my7R2jIEv9qwQBHndMQ9iPLgpXEoBRZAtcLvfG--KuSrkeXBpWi4KztVuIKFyklxevY85QYiTYki8Od2HEVmc1on7S0s0_M$" target="_blank">The Ames Library</a><br>Illinois Wesleyan University</div><div>(309) 556-3144</div><div><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://libguides.iwu.edu/prf.php?account_id=329085__;!!DZ3fjg!_elE7my7R2jIEv9qwQBHndMQ9iPLgpXEoBRZAtcLvfG--KuSrkeXBpWi4KztVuIKFyklxevY85QYiTYki8Od2HEVmc1onzhh9E0M$" target="_blank">Office Hours & Liaison Areas</a></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM Gibson, Jessica via Discovery_PVE_Comm <<a href="mailto:discovery_pve_comm@carli.illinois.edu">discovery_pve_comm@carli.illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7853201442026397511">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">While I don’t want to throw a wrench into Laura’s upcoming part of the June 11<sup>th</sup> webinar on Search Ranking, I’ve been catching up on my Alma/Primo customer list
emails, and I found the recent thread (attached; read from the bottom up; the magenta highlighting is mine) to be quite interesting. Apparently, there is a previously secret customer parameter, discovery_customer_defined_exact_match_field, that might help
with exact title search matching.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I would like to get the Committee’s thoughts on this since it sounds like it may be another on setting that needs to be coordinated consortially, but our next meeting isn’t
until June 5, less than a week before the webinar. Could we at least start to discuss via this topic via this committee email list in advance of our meeting?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Are you all experiencing the same issues outlined in this thread with searching?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Do you think this setting might help based on the descriptions?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Should I file a Case to ask Ex Libris to see if they will enable this setting in our Sandbox so we could compare the differences in our 5 sandbox IZs and NZ Primo VEs with
our production Primo VEs? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We can perhaps also do some basic testing using other sites Primo VEs who indicate they have turned it on; for example, Lesli’s library is
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thslc-houston.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TEXASHEALTH_HOUSTON:TMC_INST&lang=en__;!!DZ3fjg!_1S9731apWaL8OW9Xm5SFXDd-5nleteqvWltEcEskSgSikhSuyYMu7_33hm8LegHRWQHzCMcXP1SKXmSvLHh46PknHLLitBSNpY$" target="_blank">
https://thslc-houston.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TEXASHEALTH_HOUSTON:TMC_INST&lang=en</a> .<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-Jessica<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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