Content search UX questions and analysis

[jkeck]

• [x] What are our expectations around behavior of things like:
  • [x] phrase searching? #42
  • [x] stemming? sul-dlss/exhibits#979
  • [x] autocomplete? #14
  • [x] hit highlighting improvements?
  • [x] collapsing hyphenated words across linebreaks? #10
  • [x] adding additional content from the next page for phrase search? #10
  • [x] handoff from the discovery to the viewer context? part of #33; see UniversalViewer/universalviewer#550
• [x] What are peer institutions doing? Sites to look at include:
  • Wellcome Library
  • North Carolina State University - Nubian Message: https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?f%5Bclassification_facet%5D%5B%5D=The+Nubian+Message
  • National Library of Wales - journals: https://journals.library.wales
  • Johns Hopkins - Hamlet prompt book: https://iiifdemo.library.jhu.edu/demo/
  • IDA - http://universalviewer.io/uv.html?manifest=https://presley.dlcs-ida.org/iiif/idatest01/_roll_M-1011_127_cvs-423-453/manifest#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=2&xywh=-2%2C655%2C2150%2C2910
  • BL - http://universalviewer.io/uv.html?manifest=https://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100026245410.0x000001/manifest.json#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=9&xywh=364%2C243%2C1037%2C1407
• [x] What do our stakeholders want?
  • Zoom behavior when paging through content search hits is disorienting sul-dlss/universalviewer#46

See also #10

[anarchivist]

Yes means the feature is supported. This is a work in progress.

Feature	Wellcome	NCSU	NLW	JHU	IDA	BL	Other notes
phrase searching	Yes. Does not use quotes to delimit phrases; quotes don't match phrase. Any multi-word term is treated as a phrase query.	Yes. Uses quotes to delimit phrases.	Yes. Quotes not necessary to delimit phrases.	Yes. Uses quotes to delimit phrases	Yes. Wellcome behavior.	Yes. Phrase queries behave unusually since they span word-level annos.	...
stemming	Yes (root-out)	Yes (root-out; variant-in)	Yes (root-out)	Yes (root-out; variant-in)	No	Yes (root-out; variant-in)	root-out: effect matches effective, effects, etc; variant-in: trained matches train, etc.
autocomplete	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	...
hyphenated word match across line break	Yes	Yes	No	???	No	No	...
line break phrase match	Yes	Yes - word-level anno issue - appears as 2 annos	Yes	No?	No	Yes/No - behaves unpredictably	...
page break phrase match	No	???	No	???	Yes but odd behavior	Yes but odd behavior	...
before/after	Yes	No	No	Yes but JHU-specific behavior	Yes	Yes	...

[ggeisler]

See #33 for UI suggestions that address some, though not all, of the questions raised in this ticket.