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Katherine -- It
worked! You were right -- I had not created an index for Coverage, as I
already had the index from the date field.
Hi Linda
After much experimenting and puzzling over why your collection wasn't
working I realised what was wrong. I'm sorry but I forgot to tell you one
vital step to get this working - you need to have an index built on the
Coverage metadata to get the searching working.
Add Coverage to the
indexes line in the collect.cfg file and rebuild the collection. And it should
all work.
sorry about that. hopefully it will be fine now.
regards,
Katherine
Don
"Newman, Linda (newmanld)" wrote:
Katherine -- I hope that we can wrap this up now! But, I added
Coverage metadata to my metadata.xml files, and the date range search still
doesn't ever find any dates.I added the Coverage element to my
format documentText statement so that I could confirm that Greenstone was
picking up the Coverage data, and it is. I also experimented with
having one or both the options ' -extract_date' and
'-extract_historical_years' with the HTMLPlug, again with no change in
results.Below is an example of a metadata.xml
file. Any ideas?*********************************<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE
DirectoryMetadata SYSTEM "http://greenstone.org/dtd/DirectoryMetadata/1.0/DirectoryMetadata.dtd">
<DirectoryMetadata>
<FileSet>
<FileName>01000030.jpg</FileName>
<Description>
<Metadata name="Language"
mode="accumulate">English</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Title"
mode="accumulate">Aanstoos, Theodore A.</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Date" mode="accumulate">18850124</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Format"
mode="accumulate">image/jpeg</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Type" mode="accumulate">birth</Metadata>
<Metadata
name="CardNum">632</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Coverage"
mode="accumulate">1885</Metadata>
</Description>
</FileSet>
<FileSet>
<FileName>01000040.jpg</FileName>
<Description>
<Metadata name="Language"
mode="accumulate">English</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Title"
mode="accumulate">Aarns</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Date" mode="accumulate">18850803</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Format"
mode="accumulate">image/jpeg</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Type" mode="accumulate">birth</Metadata>
<Metadata
name="CardNum">4731</Metadata>
<Metadata name="Coverage"
mode="accumulate">1885</Metadata>
</Description>
</FileSet> </DirectoryMetadata> *********************************
Hi Linda
Yes, having no textual documents would be a problem. (I never thought
to ask what kinds of documents you were working with :-) ) The
extract_historical_years stuff goes through the text and pulls out things
that look like dates, eg 1999, 16th century etc.
However, the range
searching works on Coverage metadata, so if you add that to your images
then it should work. I think Coverage should contain just year info, like
1999, 2000 etc, one year per metadata item, and you can have many Coverage
metadata elements per document/image.
regards,
Katherine Don
"Newman, Linda (newmanld)" wrote:
Katherine -- Thank you again for your response!
I had already tried a variation with "-extract_historical_years" as
an
option with the HTMLPlug, with no change in results.
However, maybe the
crux of the problem here is that I am not working
with documents, but with
images. For each image (jpgs) I have
metadata information that includes a
date field, but there are no
documents per se. The date index and the
datelist classifier
are both working from the date field in the metadata
files. Is
it possible to get the date range search to work from the date
field
in the metadata files, rather than a date field coming from documents?
Or, can I generate documents from the metadata?
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