Core Platform Ideas

Currently, only the original exhibition title and original translated titles are searchable, which can make it difficult to check for duplicates or cross-reference if the originating venue/title is unclear or unknown. It would be great if the venue-specific titles could also somehow be added into the title search function for exhibitions.

Right now, information on whether an artwork was included in a traveling venue can only be input in CAT from the artwork page. However, researchers typically add exhibition information exhibition by exhibition, going through one exhibition catalogue at once, not artwork by artwork. Because of this, it would be great if we could add traveling venue details to artworks from the exhibition page instead of the artwork page. This would streamline the process of adding traveling venue info in CAT.

"Currently dissertations are rendering in the blibliography index with the inclusion of ""n.p."" because no location is selected for the agent. Example: Alexander, Elizabeth. ""Romare Bearden: An African-American Theory of Collage: An Approach to Reading African-American Woman's Literature."" PhD diss., n.p.: The University of Pennsylvania, 1992. However, in the Chicago Manual of Style, dissertations list institutions as the ""publisher"" for these publications, without a location. Example: Blajer de la Garza, Yuna. “A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2019. see https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html Is it possible for the PD to display the dissertations according to the CMS format?"

It would be helpful for the task manager to have another status option. "In progress" doesn't feel sufficient to capture the progress made on a task. An example for an additional status that would be helpful is "awaiting response" for tasks that require input from outside organizations.

It would be incredibly helpful if an icon could be added in a publication entry to the Included Artworks list that indicates that a link out to a scanned pub page is present, without having to open the edit feature of each artwork line by line to check this. Perhaps include the blue chain or C icon in the list.

Is it possible to make the keyword search more user-friendly? Currently, if you enter a term, the list of pertinent Getty-derived terms appear and then you must check the box to get the results. This can be confusing for a user. A generated list of relevant results without interim steps would be easier.

For some magazines, we included the location in parentheses in the title field to help with identification. For example, Fotomagazin (Munich) (pub ID 294514). However, since the location is not a part of the title, it should not be italicized. It would be great to be able to control if this is italicized in the title field somehow or have a field for periodicals that would allow the location to render after the title without italics.

Currently, you cannot search by translated title in the PD. It would be extremely helpful if you could since, in some instances, the translated title field has the English title of the exhibition which our users are more likely to search by. It would also be helpful to expand the search capabilities of the original title field in the PD. Right now, it seems that only Latin-script alphabet languages will populate search results (and even then there seems to be issues with diacritics), but it would be great if we could expand the search to include languages with other alphabets/characters such as Japanese and Russian. An example of this issue is the Bearden exhibition ブラックアーチスト　ロマー・ベアデン展 / Black Artist: Romare Bearden (exhibition ID 65319). Right now we have the English in the original title field because of this searchability issue, but ideally we would be able to move it to the correct field (the translated title field) without making it undiscoverable using the search feature in the public display.

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Currently, on resource pages where a user may enter genres and subject terms, CAT only permits entering these terms individually from the type-ahead field and selecting them by clicking each term one-by-one. To improve efficiency, for those who have a list of pre-identified terms (that exist in CAT), it would be ideal to enter them all at once in-bulk form to the resource field(s) separating each term either using a semi colon or comma. Example: "exhibition catalogs; group exhibition."