Greetings,

We have a collection in Internet Archive that we are happy to see has been 
automatically imported into Open Library. I've noticed that some titles (not 
ours) in Open Library have alternate scripts available in the titles. Ours 
however do not, even though there is such a field on the Internet Archive side. 
We're wondering how we can get the alternate script titles to show up in the 
entrees and be searchable in Open Library. Any suggestions of how I can correct 
this? On a related note, I'm not seeing the author field filled in on a lot of 
our entries in Open Library. Maybe this is something I can correct at the same 
time.


Note how if I search for the common Hebrew word "sefer" with Hebrew characters 
I get responses back showing the title in Hebrew as well as transliterated into 
roman characters. This is the correct behavior. Upon clicking the entree it is 
evident that the Hebrew field is separate from the transliterated title because 
it's not even visible on the page.


https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8


However if I search for words from one of our titles, in Hebrew characters, the 
system returns zero results.

https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%D7%92%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A2+%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A2%D7%9F

This is what we'd like to correct.


Transliterated, the search term works:

https://openlibrary.org/search?q=Gezamel%E1%B9%ADe+shrif%E1%B9%ADen

I see our identifier nybc205988, and our title page with our name on it 
"Yiddish Book Center," so I'm sure our material is in the database.


Many thanks,


Tristan Chambers
Jr. Web Developer
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA - USA
yiddishbookcenter.org<http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/>
taytsh.org<http://www.taytsh.org/>
tentsite.org<http://www.tentsite.org/>

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