Fulltext-Search with OR

[Former user]

We use bibsonomy and its typo3 plugin to auto-generate the publication lists on our institute webpage for the whole institute (www.itv.rwth-aachen.de/forschung/publikationen/) and for each of our researchers. With the fulltext-search the researchers publication lists are generated from the institutes bibsonomy-user database (we decided for a single bibsonomy user for the whole institute because they are managed by a single person for all).

For these researcher publication lists the fulltext-search is missing an OR operation like: search=Goebbert|Gobbert|Göbbert

best regards, Jens Henrik Göbbert

[Robert Jäschke]

Did you try to use OR as operator? I think Goebbert OR Gobbert OR Göbbert does what you want.

[Former user]

Hello Robert,

I sorry for the late answer. Yes, I tried "OR", too. But this does not work either. Bibsonomy then searches for the whole string "Göbbert OR Goebbert OR Gobbert" and finds no results.

This is the command: http://www.bibsonomy.org/api/posts?user=itv&format=json&resourcetype=bibtex&start=0&end=9999&search="Goebbert OR Gobbert OR Göbbert"

Currently I am using "G*bbert" as a work-around.

[Former user]

Sadly I have a scenario, which I do not know how to solved without a working "OR".

I need to let bibsonomy full-text-search for authors "Pitsch" or "Peters" to generate a single and always up-to-date publication list with ext_bibsonomy_csl (http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/ext_bibsonomy_csl) for our Institute webpage.

Can you please increase the priority of this bug.

[Robert Jäschke]

First: sorry, I oversaw that you are using the REST API of BibSonomy. I checked only on the web interface, where "OR" works. It's strange, though, that it does not work for the REST-API. I hope this is easy to fix.

[Former user]

OR-Operator works fine, if you leave the enclosing quotes.

Try: http://www.bibsonomy.org/api/posts?resourcetype=bibtex&search=Tschauner%20OR%20Hall

comparing to: http://www.bibsonomy.org/api/posts?resourcetype=bibtex&search=%22Tschauner%20OR%20Hall%22

[Robert Jäschke]

Does this solve the issue? If so, we can close it.

[Former user]

yes, this solves the issue. Thanks a lot !

Perhaps you can add this information to http://www.bibsonomy.org/help/doc/api.html in the "fulltext search" section.

[Former user]

I believe the behavior is just fine: A quoted search string is commly interpreted as searching for the raw string. On the other, it might be unconvient to someone used to the param="value" syntax of xml etc.

So, is it solved?

[Former user]

It is solved. I just was not used to have white spaces in a http-adress.

Are there other keywords like 'OR' I could use, but which are not documented at http://www.bibsonomy.org/help/doc/api.html yet. Can you add all these to the wiki?