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Search version 0.2 (In progress)

Start date: 24 Apr 2018; release date: 

Source code:  

Improvements to author search and fixes to bugs from release 0.1.

Features & Improvements

  • Author Search:

    • There is some confusion between how the classic author search works compared to the new author search, so we will update the documentation to clarify the differences.

    • Users expect to see better results when searching for multiple (co-)authors.

  • Reintroduce (experimental) full-text search: users were disappointed to see the classic experimental full-text search disappear, so we have reintroduced that option. 

  • Tweaks to user interface: 
    • Some users find the small and light abstract text too hard to read.
    • Some mobile users are having trouble interacting with the advanced search form.

Bugs

  • Author search fixes:
    • Users are having trouble searching for names that contain hyphens.
    • There are some problems searching for names using initials. 
    • Searching all papers for authors yields too many false positives. We should be sorting results by relevance by default, and be clearer through documentation about what relevance means.
  • Errors in handling certain characters: a set of special characters is causing the interface to return errors when it shouldn't.
  • Miscellaneous:
    • There's some inconsistency in how we are linking to the abstract page and paper PDF in the search results.
    • There are problems searching for papers that have classifications in categories that are no longer canonical.
    • A small set of papers is missing from the index, or can't easily be found.
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