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Phase 1 of the Cold Fusion Implementation
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The goal of Phase 1 was to create a
new search engine with
greater functionality and a better brief record display.
This was achieved by
- moving the data from the Excel spreadsheet into a highly
structured Access database,
- performing several checks on data integrity and
- creating Cold Fusion scripts to run a new search engine, and
to display the search results.
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Changes Resulting from Phase 1
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Aspect
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Before Phase 1
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After Phase 1
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Functionality of the Search Engine
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Boolean combinations were not permitted between
different fields.
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Enabled in Phase 1.
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Limiting a search by founding date of societies could
not be done.
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Enabled in Phase 1.
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Input including diacritical marks or non-Latin characters
was not interpreted properly by the search engine.
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Deferred to a later Phase.
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Display of Brief Records
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Brief records contained too little information and were poorly
formatted.
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Major improvement in Phase 1.
In a later Phase, some enhancements will be made (e.g. displaying
transliterated names and translated names differently from the
original society name)
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Sort order (by date of entry into the system) was not
useful.
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Major improvement in Phase 1: sort order is now almost
alphabetical.
In a later Phase, some aberrations caused by the
existence of diacritical marks in society names will be corrected.
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Management System
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The
By Country and
By Language pages were already produced from the
database,
but with the above-noted limitations in brief record display.
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Major improvement in Phase 1:
the brief record display limitations for these pages were largely fixed in
Phase 1.
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The text in all other areas was manually produced.
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Producing other pages from the database is
deferred to a later Phase.
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