Retrieving catalogue items via content search...

[mikesname]

Hi folks - here's a use case we've got that I'm unsure how to make work on our GeoNetwork instance:

• we have a GeoPackage dataset that contains names, statistics and borders of 100 countries including, say, Albania
• we'd like to locate this dataset through the main GeoNetwork search box if the user's query includes "Albania"

The contents of the dataset is indexed and can be explored via the "Discover Data" section on the item's catalogue page, but it's not in the main catalogue index so is not discoverable via contents. Does anyone know of a way to configure this, other than by expanding the record's metadata to include all of the country names?

Thanks!

[fxprunayre]

It was on the list of ideas when moving to Elasticsearch but we never move forward on it. Indeed once the features are indexed in Elasticsearch, we could start searching on both records and features. Querying both indices with http://localhost:9200/gn-*/_search will work. But then a number of questions are raised - you may want to group features by record(s) of origin using joining queries https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/joining-queries.html

Quick list of entry points to start working on this would be
fxprunayre@4212d1f

And then features can be retrieved in the main search

[mikesname]

@fxprunayre thank you, this is very useful! Good to know it's an idea that has come up before 👍