Search version 0.2 (In progress)
Start date: ; 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.