Arquivo.pt main goal is the preservation and access of web contents that are no longer available online. During the developing of the PWA IR (information retrieval) system we faced limitations in searching speed, quality of results, scalability and usability. To cope with this, we modified the archive-access project (http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/) to support our web archive IR requirements. Nutchwax, Nutch and Wayback’s code were adapted to meet the requirements. Several optimizations were added, such as simplifications in the way document versions are searched and several bottlenecks were resolved. The PWA search engine is a public service at http://archive.pt and a research platform for web archiving. As it predecessor Nutch, it runs over Hadoop clusters for distributed computing following the map-reduce paradigm. Its major features include fast full-text search, URL search, phrase search, faceted search (date, format, site), and sorting by relevance and date. The PWA search engine is highly scalable and its architecture is flexible enough to enable the deployment of different configurations to respond to the different needs. Currently, it serves an archive collection searchable by full-text with 180 million documents ranging between 1996 and 2010.
What happened?
On the "Images with the format:" input field only one format can be chosen at a time, even though the system supports searches with more than one file type.
What is the URL that originated the issue? https://arquivo.pt/image/advanced/search?q=&from=19910806&to=20220121&trackingId=2250ef93a34adb4c5daf_39afec52f3282ff9d9b3
What happened? On the "Images with the format:" input field only one format can be chosen at a time, even though the system supports searches with more than one file type.
What should have happened? The user interface should allow for multiple options to be selected. https://arquivo.pt/image/search?q=publico+format%3Agif%2Cjpg&l=en&from=19910806&to=20220121&trackingId=2250ef93a34adb4c5daf_4934ad1eedfe5d91065b
It also seems to exist some inconsistency with behavior of commands "type" and "format".
type: it is referenced on the documentation of the Image Search API. However, it does not support multiple values: https://arquivo.pt/image/search?q=publico+type%3Agif%2Cjpg&l=en&from=19910806&to=20220121&trackingId=2250ef93a34adb4c5daf_97b093a4382349b48e3b
format: it is not referenced on the documentation of the Image Search API. However, it seems to work with multiple values: https://arquivo.pt/image/search?q=publico+format%3Agif%2Cjpg&l=en&from=19910806&to=20220121&trackingId=2250ef93a34adb4c5daf_64ef54fee5d51dc8cbd1
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