Incorporating ORA search
There are a number of ways you can use the ORA search.
1. Use a URL and focus the search remotely say for a particular author or department.This URL can be included for example, on a website. It will search the live database so will always be up to date. Put the query you want at the end of the following:
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/access/adv_search.php?q0=[add your query here]
So if you want to search for a specific author add 'author:[author name].' An example for Prof Bishop:
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/access/adv_search.php?q0=author:bishop
Searching for items from a department for example Department of Philosophy
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/access/adv_search.php?q0=faculty:philosophy
To use the search for a specific collection
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/access/adv_search.php?q0=collection:younglives
and so on. There are many possiblities. You can see the options on the ORA search help page
You can combine more than one query to make the search more focussed or accurate, for example to retrieve items from a particular faculty with a specific publication date
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/access/adv_search.php?q0=faculty:philosophy AND copyright_date:2005
2. You can embed ORA search in a webpage so that it looks like the search on the ORA search page (ie with a search query box and a button). You can customise your embedded search to query only certain content of ORA. For example, the Department of Classics might wish to have their search box only querying items labelled as by members of that department. See the technical information below.
Technical information about ORA search
ORA search uses SOLR open source software. See ORA search at http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/access/adv_search.php
more specifically, the javascript file
and look at the Yahoo pipes for author feeds and faculty feeds
ORA search engine is an instance of Apache Solr It has many features
Base documentation for querying the ORA search engine
To receive highlights of searches
Whilst faceting searching and browsing is possible, the search on the main ORA site does not use it yet, as a new interface is being developed to replace the current site. Add faceting onto your search result
There is a helpful form that will let you build and test your queries against the search engine.
Do more with it, in the language of your choice
If you would like to know more or have further questions, please contact us at ORA@bodleian.ox.ac.uk