Project DIAL Report - 6.8. Conclusions relating to this Chapter

6.8. Conclusions relating to this Chapter

In any follow-on RETA, the following factors should be regarded as desirable characteristics of the DIAL Search aspect of the system to be developed:

Search language offering users a choice of no use of search connectors, or boolean/proximity connectors.
Ability to limit searches to specific `Libraries', sub-sets of the whole searchable collection.
Ability to limit searches to a particular database, to allows DIAL Search to be used to search specific sites which have no search engine of their own, or only have a search engine which has limited features.
Ability to limit searches to a country domain, to be able to be used in conjunction with selection of Libraries .
Ability to limit searches by language of documents, necessary as the range of non-English materials searchable in DIAL Search increases.
Display of search results ordered according to likely relevance (`relevance ranking').
Alternative display of search results grouped by Library and database of origin.