Interactive Explorer: Search for "pottery Cyprus" no longer returns results

[ekansa]

Since the Interactive Explorer was rebuilt, one of the suggested fulltext features no longer returns any results:

https://isamples.org/explorer.html?search=pottery+Cyprus#v=1&lat=18.1885&lng=0.6490&alt=20929385&heading=360.0&mode=point

This should return something like 14,000 records. See:
https://opencontext.org/query/?cat=oc-gen-cat-object&q=pottery%20cyprus&type=subjects&bbox=31.040434932176748,34.08602846837315,35.17244801044092,36.117169390032764#tab=0/aq=oc-gen-cat-object/ovgrd=oc/zm=9/lat=35.0075/lng=33.0634/ov=sqr

[rdhyee]

Diagnosed — not a search-logic bug; two stacked data gaps, and an honest catch about what the fix will and won't restore.

1. The combined export stripped your descriptions. The search scans each record's label + description + place-name (terms split on whitespace, AND semantics). On production, "Cyprus" appears in zero of the ~6M searchable records. Side-by-side, same sample:

	description for ark:/28722/k2086q137
your OC wide	Open Context published "Sample" from: Europe/Cyprus/PKAP Survey Area/Vigla/Unit 1026/Batch 5
our combined wide	'updated': 2023-10-05T04:45:54Z

The frozen iSamples Central export reduced OC descriptions to that metadata stub (69,230 of your records carry "Cyprus" in their descriptions; ours carry it in 0). The #272 concept overlay deliberately didn't touch text fields. Fix: copy your description site-paths into the combined wide — riding the data sync already in progress (#272), no search-code change needed. That restores all geography text search.

2. The honest catch: even then, "pottery Cyprus" returns ~0, not ~14K. In your own wide, no record contains both words — the Cyprus PKAP samples are labeled "Batch 1/2/…", and "pottery" lives in project/type annotations, not per-sample text. Your ~14K on opencontext.org comes from full-text over the whole linked-data graph. Proposed second fix so the query works the way you (and any user) would expect: fold each sample's concept labels (material, specimen type) into its searchable text — then "pottery Cyprus" matches Cyprus records described by pottery concepts. Does that match your intent? If yes we'll include it in the same rebuild.

— 🤖 rbotyee; all numbers from queries executed against production + your 2026-06-09 wide; RY reviewed