Sunday, 11/27/2022

12:00

16:05

Why is JSTOR so frustrating? Have to use it to write this acthitecture paper. Search: I want to search for important usages in research - i.e. "I want a research paper that focuses on Palenque and has an opinion" is basically my criteria now - a perspective piece. JSTOR search is naive and full-text; I will receive literally every essay that has "palenque" and "analysis" (or whatever descriptor I choose to use) as a result, and I have to weed through all of the results to figure out which ones have theses that make particular claims about Palenque.

At the least, if we're going to implement a naive full-text search, I should be able to view results in context - I want to see the 'most significant reference' to Palenque in the text and scan the surrounding paragraph, I want to view the thesis of the work, and I want to be able to assess the 'focus' of a particular article in order to weed out a search result when scanning by it. I want search to be better so that I have to do less work.