Internal Search for Metadata

1 Initial Problem

On each page in a wiki, there's a search bar in the top right corner that allows users to search for key words. The results list all articles that contain that key word in the title and/or text body. However, the results do not show articles where the key word was entered as one of the data points in the metadata. In other words, it is not possible to use the search bar to find articles with specific metadata.

2 Conceptual Summary

The wiki-internal search bar should be able to search for metadata keywords. The relevance display in the search results should include "metadata". Metadata is at least as important for search results as the term in the title.

It would be helpful to display the metadata found in the search results (e.g. as a separate column "Metadata"). The presentation of metadata in the search results should be considered in the efforts to Search Results Presentation should be taken into account.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Wiki > Page > Secondary Panel "Search"
• Search Results Presentation

3.2 User Interface Details

The visual representation itself is not changed. The current search workflow will in future include metadata keywords in the search results (as the global search currently already does).

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

No new UI-Concepts.

3.4 Accessibility Implications

The additional information on metadata in the search results must be labelled accordingly, so that e.g. screen readers can output it optimally (i.e. when it is read out, it should be clear that it is a metadata that is being read out here).

4 Technical Information

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7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Seiler, Yvonne [yvseiler], Thiel, Anja [athiel] Universität Bern
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8 Funding

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• Universität Bern

9 Discussion

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