Increase Searchability of Exhibitions with Foreign Language Titles in PD
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Lillian Beeson
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.
Samantha Rowe
This will also be a significant factor for the exhibition catalogues displayed on the WPI Library Portal. We have a large number of catalogues from Japan that we want to ensure are fully searchable.