It would be more user friendly to do an autocomplete option for choosing the institution instead of the current choose country, then choose institution. Many have to scroll quite a ways. Tapestry has an autocomplete option, but it isn't straightforward to use with this data set. This data set has characters beyond ASCII. Users may use non-ASCII where there is only ASCII, or they may use ASCII where there is non-ASCII. So what is needed is character folding. Best probable method of doing this would be to use Apache Solr, as it has character folding. Essentially everything at the search layer gets converted to ASCII equivalents, but at the display layer, the original characters are displayed. Solr could be built in, or we could go with a external Solr, as NDSU is already using Solr internally for other projects.
It would be more user friendly to do an autocomplete option for choosing the institution instead of the current choose country, then choose institution. Many have to scroll quite a ways. Tapestry has an autocomplete option, but it isn't straightforward to use with this data set. This data set has characters beyond ASCII. Users may use non-ASCII where there is only ASCII, or they may use ASCII where there is non-ASCII. So what is needed is character folding. Best probable method of doing this would be to use Apache Solr, as it has character folding. Essentially everything at the search layer gets converted to ASCII equivalents, but at the display layer, the original characters are displayed. Solr could be built in, or we could go with a external Solr, as NDSU is already using Solr internally for other projects.