Lucy, While Arches might be able to find names with multiple diacriticals, It would make sense to add additional transliteration names to the primary name anyway. This is because people often follow different conventions in transliteration. So, in your example, I would add Maadi, Al as an alternate name to the resource's primary name.
You should test how well Arches' default search settings resolve terms with diacritical marks for your particular dataset. Arches uses ElasticSearch for query support, and you may want to check out http://www.elasticsearch.org/resources/ for documentation and examples of how to tune searches. Cheers, Dennis On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 2:15:53 AM UTC-8, Lucy FJ wrote: > > > Thank you very much, Dennis. > > I have another question on searching for names with letters that have > diacritical marks above them, like the umlaut (sp?) in German. > Transliterations of Arabic names of Egyptian historical sites should use > diacritical marks and apostrophes e.g. > > *Ma‛ādī, Al, *so we would like to input this as the primary name. Would a > search under the more usual western form *'Maadi, Al*' find this name, or > would we need to input 'Maadi, Al' as a name variant? I have tried this in > Google and it seems to be able to find the name with diacriticals sometimes > but not always. These are different Hex/ UTF character codes so it may not > work. > > Thank you, Lucy > > > > On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 9:23:52 PM UTC+2, Dennis Wuthrich wrote: >> >> Lucy, >> >> Arches should be able to return the site name even if you don't include >> the leading apostrophe. As for special characters, Arches uses UTF-8 >> encoding, so it should be able to process characters on your keyboard. >> >> -Dennis >> >> On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 5:10:12 AM UTC-8, Lucy FJ wrote: >>> >>> >>> I have a question about using the search function in Release 3, which >>> may be daft but I just wanted to check. >>> I understand from the Information Session in Cyprus in November that the >>> search function is going to be as similar to Google as possible. Does this >>> mean, for example that if I enter the resource site name * Abu Hawr *in >>> the search field it will pick up the site with the primary name* 'Abu >>> Hawr (with the apostrophe at the beginning,) *or would we need to add a >>> resource alternative name *Abu Hawr. * >>> >>> Also have our database initially into Excel which enables us to input >>> special characters which are not on a regular keyboard. When inputting into >>> Arches, presumably we can only copy and paste these names unless we have >>> the appropriate keyboard or will the new UI enable special characters to be >>> input? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >> > On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 9:23:52 PM UTC+2, Dennis Wuthrich wrote: >> >> Lucy, >> >> Arches should be able to return the site name even if you don't include >> the leading apostrophe. As for special characters, Arches uses UTF-8 >> encoding, so it should be able to process characters on your keyboard. >> >> -Dennis >> >> On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 5:10:12 AM UTC-8, Lucy FJ wrote: >>> >>> >>> I have a question about using the search function in Release 3, which >>> may be daft but I just wanted to check. >>> I understand from the Information Session in Cyprus in November that the >>> search function is going to be as similar to Google as possible. Does this >>> mean, for example that if I enter the resource site name * Abu Hawr *in >>> the search field it will pick up the site with the primary name* 'Abu >>> Hawr (with the apostrophe at the beginning,) *or would we need to add a >>> resource alternative name *Abu Hawr. * >>> >>> Also have our database initially into Excel which enables us to input >>> special characters which are not on a regular keyboard. When inputting into >>> Arches, presumably we can only copy and paste these names unless we have >>> the appropriate keyboard or will the new UI enable special characters to be >>> input? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >> -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
