Empty index values creating empty links (Copyright Renewals)

[jvine]

Empty facet value at the top of the Author facet:
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals

It's possible for a keyboard or SR user to trigger this link:
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/catalog?f%5Bauthor_person_facet%5D%5B%5D=

Empty titles at top of search results -
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&exhibit_id=copyrightrenewals&search_field=search&q=

again, keyboard/SR can trigger:
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/catalog/R458196

I'm not sure how this should be fixed - data remediation? If the metadata is accurate (can it be??) then the app needs to handle empty values in a way that makes them perceivable.

These haven't been reported for any other exhibit, so hopefully it's not a broader problem.

Tagging @caaster for attention.

[cbeer]

I think these blank values will go away with a reindex.

[mejackreed]

@caaster is it ok if I go ahead and reindex?

[cbeer]

Don't bother with copyrightrenewals; I'll be doing something to it for #1759

[corylown]

Need to determine whether this is still an issue.

There are still 13,829 records in the copyrightrenewals exhibit that have an empty string in the author_person_facet. The comments on this issue suggest a re-index might resolve the issue, but it does not appear that the exhibit has been re-indexed. A full re-index may be the first thing to try to resolve this.

Solr query to find these records:

exhibits_prod/query?q=*:*&q.op=OR&indent=true&fl=id,author_person_facet&fq=spotlight_exhibit_slugs_ssim:copyrightrenewals&fq=author_person_facet:""

[caaster]

@hannahfrost question from Cory: he would like to reindex this exhibit to see if that fixes the problem. Is it ok for him to reindex?

[hannahfrost]

Yes, fine to reindex. Thanks! — Hannah Frost | Associate Director for Digital Services Stanford Libraries<https://library.stanford.edu/> | Digital Library Systems and Services Lathrop Library 384 E: ***@***.*** | C: (650) 799-1352 Pronouns: she/her On Jul 23, 2024, at 7:57 AM, Cathy Aster ***@***.***> wrote: @hannahfrost<https://github.com/hannahfrost> question from Cory: he would like to reindex this exhibit to see if that fixes the problem. Is it ok for him to reindex? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#1763 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AANXW5EORVJJEH52ZZ7YD3DZNZVNDAVCNFSM6AAAAABLDCTXMWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDENBVGQ4DMOJRGM>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[corylown]

I am going to need more information about where the records for this collection come from. They have no corresponding resource in the database that I can find and therefore cannot be reindexed.