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Search/filter/browse by manuscript language #244

Open TBRC-Travis opened 4 years ago

TBRC-Travis commented 4 years ago

It would be great if users could find manuscripts by language. For example, to list all the Sanskrit texts we have available on our site, or all the Pali texts...etc.

eroux commented 4 years ago

So, generally speaking this is manageable... but not in all cases. We probably don't want to return 200,000 matches for "show me all the works in Tibetan"... this is the main problem for this kind of query, we can toy with displaying something, but browsing all works in a language is just not manageable (even Sanskrit would be too big, who would want to browse around 10,000 texts?). We could have a special type of queries that only return a certain number of results so that something is displayed, and then let the users do a text search... that's a bit of work in terms of queries though.