Hello Tim,

That's right, this is the proper behaviour, there are no results because 
author names are unified (starting with last names), and there is no author 
name starting with "Kar..."

We are facing a completely different issue. As I wrote in the post, it 
seems that the subject terms and author names are stored in the wrong 
format in the browse indexes.

Let me show you some examples:

*subject term in metadata (dc.subject field): Adriai-tenger*
*subject term after filter results: adriaiteng*

This wrong form of the subject term shows in the link, therefore, DSpace 
could not find the linked content:

https://digitalia.csfk.org/browse/subject?*value=adriaiteng*&bbm.return=1

The proper link should be: https://digitalia.csfk.org/browse/subject?
*value=Adriai-tenger*&bbm.return=1 (this link works just fine!)

*author name: Allodi, Pietro*
*filtered result after type "all" in the "Browse/Search" box: allodi*

broken link: https://digitalia.csfk.org/browse/author?*value=allodi*
&bbm.return=1

the correct link would be: 
https://digitalia.csfk.org/browse/author?*value=Allodi, 
Pietro*&bbm.return=1 (works fine)

Global search (in the header or homepage) works perfect!

Any idea to fix this issue?
(Our database is not available to the public yet, only for internal use.)

Thanks,
Arpad

DSpace Technical Support a következőt írta (2025. május 16., péntek, 
18:31:25 UTC+2):

Hi,

I believe this may be a misunderstanding on how the "Browse by Author" 
pages work in DSpace.

When you visit the Browse By Author page in DSpace, you'll see all the 
Authors in the system listed alphabetically by surname (last name).  This 
can be seen on the demo site: https://demo.dspace.org/browse/author

The "Browse/Search" box on that page notes specifically that you can 
"Filter results by typing the first few letters".  It is NOT a normal 
search box, but rather allows you to immediately filter that list of all 
Authors down to ones whose surname begins with certain letters.

However, the *key point* is that box is expecting you to type the author's 
*surname 
(last name) first* , because that is how the authors are listed in that 
"Browse by Author" page.

So, on the demo site, you can see that if you type in "De" or "De Wael" you 
will *filter that list of authors to only those whose surname starts with 
that text.*

Therefore, typing "De Wael" in that box will return two results:  "De Wael, 
K" and "De Wael, Karolien"  See on the demo site: 
https://demo.dspace.org/browse/author?bbm.page=1&startsWith=De%20Wael

However, if you instead type "Karolien", you will receive *no results* 
because no authors in the system have a surname of "Karolien"  See on the 
demo site: 
https://demo.dspace.org/browse/author?bbm.page=1&startsWith=Karolien

Keep in mind, the global search page will act differently however.  If you 
type "Karolien De Wael" in the global search (in the header or homepage or 
search page), then you will get results related to that author.  For 
example, on the demo site: 
https://demo.dspace.org/search?query=Karolien%20De%20Wael&spc.page=1

This is expected behavior in DSpace because the "Browse by Author" page 
only searches for author names (surname first) that *start with* that 
text.   But, the global search page will search across the entire system 
for anything that matches.

I hope that helps to better explain the behavior you are seeing.

Tim
On Friday, May 16, 2025 at 6:08:35 AM UTC-5 [email protected] 
wrote:

I just checked right now version 8, on demo websitem and it has the same 
issue. 



[image: Captura.PNG]


But if you search his name as "Karolien De Wael" no results are given:

[image: Captura.PNG]


El dia dissabte, 10 de maig del 2025 a les 23:15:37 UTC+2, Árpád Magyar va 
escriure:

Dear All,


We have some search issues on the browse page using "search the repository' 
search bar to filter the results.
Using the menu 'All of Dspace' > by Subject > 'Search the repository', only 
lowercase, truncated, and unaccented subject terms are displayed, with 
broken links (with the message 'no items to show')
E.g.:
*Adriai-tenger > adriaiteng*
*adatfeldolgozás > adatfeldolgoza*

The same issue occurs when searching for authors on the browsing page. E.g.:
*Asztalos István > asztalo* 

 Using the "Search the repository" search bar on the pages 'browsing by 
issue date' and 'by title' works fine.
Could this be an indexing issue?
The links in the list of authors and subject terms work fine. The issue 
only occurs when we filter using the top search bar on the browsing pages.

Dspace version: 8.0 (updated from 7.2) Java version: 17.0.14

Could you please help solve this issue? Any idea would be appreciated.

Thanks so much,

Arpad

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Browsing-issue-author-3.jpg][image: Browsing-issue-subject-1.jpg][image: 
Browsing-issue-subject-2.jpg]

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