Default search and browse results for composite mss should be the ms parts

[wlpotter]

Currently, the search results correspond to the 577 TEI XML documents, but many of these are "composite", meaning they contain two or more manuscript 'parts'. For search and browse purposes, these parts should be the base unit of a returned record since they contain the relevant contents, date, material, script, classification, etc. information.

Determining whether a manuscript is single or multi-part can be done by testing for msDesc[msPart]. If there is an msPart, then we want a record for each descendant msPart; otherwise we want a single record based on the msDesc element.

Within the msPart, the XPaths to the individual data points for the search index would be the same as from the msDesc of a single part. E.g. for material:

• Single part: msDesc/physDesc/objectDesc/supportDesc/@material
• Multi-part: (for each msPart), msPart/physDesc/objectDesc/supportDesc/@material

We will want to include some information about the containing manuscript for a multi-part ms, e.g. we want to include the container's URI to create the links. So for each part record we'd still want the msDesc/msIdentifier/idno[@type="URI"].

[emgeier]

So each xml file can contain several parts which should each be their individual json record to appear independently in search results? No multipart manuscript should appear in search results only their parts?

[wlpotter]

I think we may want to include the container of the multiparts as well, but we should discuss. There are a few multiparts that have data in the container, but most will not.

I also didn't think to include a question of how this would affect full text searching? Do we need to be more specific about which elements/paths are included in the full text search? For example, we wouldn't want part 2 of a record to show up in a full text search for a hit that is only in part 1.

[davidamichelson]

After discuss, we decided to not display the entries for the container MS, but we do want to include a note in the abstract for the part explaining that they are parts of a composite, with a link to an explanatory note.

[wlpotter]

Assigning myself to draft the language of the explanatory note (or to create follow up issues for this one)