[GeoNetwork-devel] Proposal to change Lucene relevance number

Hello lists,

a Dutch project that’s using GeoNetwork wants to show the Lucene relevance ranking expressed as a percentage on the search results page.

The Lucene relevance ranking, as such, is a number between 0 and 1 that has no meaning to a user.

I’ve implemented it for the Dutch project such that the highest result’s relevance ranking is taken as “100%”, and all other results’ relevances are normalised with respect to that.

Is anyone interested in that I merge this to the trunk ? Anyone out there doing anything with the current relevance ranking (such as, displaying it) that might be affected ?

regards
heikki doeleman

heikki wrote:

The Lucene relevance ranking, as such, is a number between 0 and 1 that has no meaning to a user.

I've implemented it for the Dutch project such that the highest result's relevance ranking is taken as "100%", and all other results' relevances are normalised with respect to that.

Is anyone interested in that I merge this to the trunk ? Anyone out there doing anything with the current relevance ranking (such as, displaying it) that might be affected ?

+1

My experience with relevance ranking (Isite/Isearch) is that numeric values are intrinsically meaningless and server only as a starting point for arguments over how the numbers are generated. Normalized percentages are better, simple icons (eg, green, yellow and red balls) are better still.

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