RANKING of L4.0 library resources

I would love to have Logos verify this but I believe the ranking in the Library is Logos' default prioritization. It is overridden by the user prioritization, but not changed. so for the resources that are not prioritized the Library ranking number is the number used to determine the order they appear in.

Actually I'm pretty sure it's based on the number of hits the search words get in all the metadata fields for the resource (title, subject, author, description,etc).  Plus isn't the default prioritization alphabetical (aside from the preferred bible)?

Mark Barnes said:

Ranking is how relevant the search is. Searches in the Library often return many results. (For example, typing bible dictionary in my library returns 66 results). You wouldn't want Google to return searches in alphabetical order, so neither do you want Logos to do so in the Library. If I sort by rank my first three returns are 'proper' Bible dictionaries. That's what I want.

Quite what the ranking criteria is I'm not sure, but titles rank higher than descriptions, and resources where your search terms apepar as phrases seem to rank higher too. It doesn't take appear to take into consideration any prioritising you have done, nor whether you have 'starred' them.

He's asking about the ranking column in the library, not the rating sort order in search results.

I would also like to know how the ranking works.

Philip Spitzer said:

I never checked before but this number changes with each filter then?

Yes, it does. Indeed it only appears when you do a search.

The ranking applies to how similar the result is to your search terms. It's a relevancy ranking, not a quality ranking. I suspect that because they all mention "BHS" the same number of times in the title/short title/description, the resource that has BHS as the greatest percentage of it's title/short title/description gets ranked higher. As the 'old' BHS has a shorter description, the word BHS make up 5% of its description (wild estimate), whilst with the newer resources its only about 2%. That makes Logos consider the old BHS as more relevant to a search on the word BHS.

When you search for a resource in the Library tab, it is only search resource metadata, that is data about the resource. It does not search the resource itself, nor (I'm pretty sure) the table of contents. It's basically searching the data you can see in the library view if you were in the 'grid view', had all the columns visible, and were showing the information panel. There is one exception. It doesn't search the place of publication, despite that showing in the information view.

You can change the sort order by clicking in the titles of the columns. It is usually best to sort by ranking.

In the example you give "infant baptism" appears in the description of the resource.

Mark Barnes said:

When you search for a resource in the Library tab, it is only search resource metadata, that is data about the resource. It does not search the resource itself, nor (I'm pretty sure) the table of contents. It's basically searching the data you can see in the library view if you were in the 'grid view', had all the columns visible, and were showing the information panel. There is one exception. It doesn't search the place of publication, despite that showing in the information view.

I thought it was searching the indices. I guess we have to wait for Logos 5.0 for that comprehensive of a search. (Come to think of it, such a detailed search would be returning a whole lot more hits from my library than the two listed. [co]  I DO have Portfolio edition, Praise God!))

The whole purpose of ranking to to show us the resources that most closely match the search terms that we type in. That's what it does. It's a great improvement over Logos 3 which didn't do that. It doesn't take into consideration prioritisation, so nothing needs to be set-up in order for it to work. I don't understand what the problem is.