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Search #13

Closed peterdesmet closed 1 year ago

peterdesmet commented 1 year ago

The current website has search functionality: https://www.tdwg.org/search.html?q=darwin+core

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The Jekyll website does not.

Reimplementing search is likely possible (see e.g. https://learn.cloudcannon.com/jekyll/jekyll-search-using-lunr-js/), but would require some development work. @stanblum do we have usage stats on the search functionality? Would it be missed?

stanblum commented 1 year ago

As far as I know we don't have usage statistics of any kind. My sense is that search is rarely used. But I have used it in the past if I have forgotten where rarely used information is, or to see if we have the right information posted at all. Is something posted in both standards and community? Maybe Google search is good enough.

I don't have a strong opinion on the utility of Search.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:22 AM Peter Desmet @.***> wrote:

The current website has search functionality: https://www.tdwg.org/search.html?q=darwin+core

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The Jekyll website does not.

Reimplementing search is likely possible (see e.g. https://learn.cloudcannon.com/jekyll/jekyll-search-using-lunr-js/), but would require some development work. @stanblum https://github.com/stanblum do we have usage stats on the search functionality? Would it be missed?

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gkampmeier commented 1 year ago

@peterdesmet I personally get frustrated when I find a site without a search, however, I do remember an early lesson in user interface design: if the user feels they have to search for your content, you have failed in your design. So if we can make a site where the user can easily locate what s/he wants, then we can work without it, but the very fact that Darwin Core is mentioned in 73 places points out that this is likely not the case.

peterdesmet commented 1 year ago

I don't have the time to implement a search right now.