Past enhancements
Week of July 27th, 2009 The EAD Indexing Task Group has been working on methods to incorporate archival finding aids encoded using the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard into Search TRLN. TRLN archivists have created several thousand EAD finding aids providing detailed descriptions of archival collections to support scholars using these collections. Search TRLN now indexes and displays key data elements from the consortium's EAD finding aid documents. See for example the Search TRLN record for the GI Bill Oral Histories Collection at NCSU. Over the next several weeks the remainder of the consortium's EAD finding aids will be indexed in Search TRLN. When complete this project will enable the discovery of archival materials alongside published materials and enable the cross-searching of all of TRLN's 6,500+ EAD finding aids from a single search interface.
Week of April 6th, 2009 - Enhanced indexing support will be implemented for terms that include diacritics and special characters beyond the Latin-1 character set. Diacritics will now be ignored in searching so that searches for terms with and without diacritics will return the same result sets. Apostrophes will now be ignored during indexing and searching processes. Searches for terms with apostrophes will also be subject to stemming. For instance a searches for "loves labours lost", "love's labours lost", and "love's labour's lost" will return the same result sets. Previous versions of TRLN Endeca did not display repeatable fields, such as summaries, in the correct order. In this upgrade, libraries can choose to modify their MARC extracts to support this feature.
February 1, 2009 -- A 'British-American' word forms file was implemented on the TRLN Endeca servers. This modification supports retrieval for terms with British and American spelling variations. For instance, a search for 'colour' will also return matches on 'color.'
December 19, 2008 -- Search TRLN now supports the ability to add records to a 'Marked Item List' and to print, email, or export those records to citation management systems like Refworks and Endnote.
November 20, 2008 -- Search TRLN now supports retrieval of titles and authors containing non-ASCII characters.
November 5, 2008 -- Search TRLN now supports email, text messaging, and printing of single records. Also, patrons have the ability to export records directly to Refworks or to RIS format for Endnote. See The Tar Heel state : a history of North Carolina for a preview of these features.
September 26, 2008 -- Search TRLN now supports searching by Journal Title. Exact title searching has also been improved. See for instance this search for the title The way things work.
August 20, 2008 -- Search TRLN now supports links to digitized versions of books available at Google Book Search. Search TRLN users may see a link to Google Book Search when viewing a full record for a title. Following the hyperlink allows the user to preview digitized copies of works under copyright protection and view the full-text of works in the public domain.
August 13, 2008 -- Search TRLN now supports 'tokenized' searching for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language materials enhancing access to these materials in the TRLN collections.
Improve Publication Date Sorting	When result sets are sorted by publication date, a secondary sort by title is also performed.	Implemented on Search TRLN 07/31/2008
Display due dates in Search TRLN		Implemented in Search TRLN for Duke and UNC materials on 7/31/2008
Truncate long titles	Titles of more than 120 characters are truncated at 120 characters on the results screen in the Search TRLN interface.	Implemented on Search TRLN on 7/31/2008