I can speak to this a little bit, I do (very part time) support work
at Open Library.
> 1) When searching for an ebook, there appears to be no way to filter for
> the type. It would be useful to be able to either filter only for DAISYs
Agreed. That is a thing that I would also like. Right now you can add
NOT DAISY to your search but I agree, it's a bit of a contortion to
have to do that.
> Many names are entered in the latter
> form. Having instructions available consistently would reduce this.
As Karen said, this was a design choice when it was built and while I
think it would be worth revisiting it's more of a preference thing I
think. We don't notice a lot of bad data coming from people adding
author names wrong because of the authority-control options built in
to the system.
> 3) When I search for text that includes special characters (for example,
> "G?del" or "espa?ol"), it matters whether I enter the special character
> or not ("Godel" or "espanol" will not match). Most people don't know how
> to type these characters. I'm fairly savvy but had to look it up.
Yep, this is a larger issue with how the search functions or fails to
function. I've been working on some cleanup for author names that
include special characters (trying to get them combined into one
standard name) and because of the way our records were imported
willy-nilly from places this is just messy.
> Just did a subject search on "protected DAISY" and got zero. But a
> search on DAISY retrieves "Protected DAISY" "protected DAISY" and
> others. Then tried "civil war" - zero, but "war" retrieves "civil war" -
> subject search currently only works on a single word. I'll report this.
I've reported it also. It's a thing that causes a certain degree of
confusion that could be avoided if Search worked properly.
Jessamyn
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