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Fields for geogname & places are redundant and should be consolidated #1431

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seanaery opened this issue Dec 4, 2023 · 0 comments
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seanaery commented Dec 4, 2023

ArcLight is currently capturing and representing place metadata in a confusing way, using more fields than necessary. I believe we should just use places_ssim consistently and stop using both geogname_ssim & geogname_ssm. Current references to those fields as follows...

ead2_config.rb (collection-level):

to_field 'geogname_ssm', extract_xpath('/ead/archdesc/controlaccess/geogname')
to_field 'geogname_ssim', extract_xpath('/ead/archdesc/controlaccess/geogname')
...
to_field 'places_ssim', extract_xpath('/ead/archdesc/controlaccess/geogname')

ead2_component_config.rb:

to_field 'geogname_ssim', extract_xpath('./controlaccess/geogname')
to_field 'geogname_ssm', extract_xpath('./controlaccess/geogname')
to_field 'places_ssim', extract_xpath('./controlaccess/geogname')

It's the same data. Whatever's in controlaccess/geogname is what becomes Places. But throughout in the app, there are inconsistent references to the Places field that makes it unnecessarily complicated and error-prone.

solrconfig.xml

  • uses geogname_ssim for <str name="facet.field">geogname_ssim</str>
  • uses geogname_ssm and places_ssim in the <str name="fl"> section
  • uses place_teim for qf, pf, qf_place, pf_place

schema.xml

  • uses places_ssim for <copyField source="places_ssim" dest="place_teim"/>, <copyField source="places_ssim" dest="text" />, and
  • does not use geogname_*

catalog_controller.rb

  • uses geogname_ssim for config.add_facet_field 'place', field: 'geogname_ssim', limit: 10
  • uses places_ssim for config.add_indexed_terms_field 'places', field: 'places_ssim' and config.add_component_indexed_terms_field 'places', field: 'places_ssim'
@marlo-longley marlo-longley self-assigned this Dec 14, 2023
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