Achieving Japanese Full-Text Search with the MroongaSearch Module for Omeka-S
Overview Omeka-S is a powerful digital archive system, but Japanese full-text search barely works by default. This article explains how to achieve Japanese full-text search by installing the MroongaSearch module. Background: Why the MroongaSearch Module is Needed Problems with Omeka-S Standard Search Omeka-S’s standard full-text search (FullTextSearch module) uses the InnoDB engine, which has the following critical issues: Example of Japanese word search: Data: "Studying artificial intelligence at the University of Tokyo" (東京大学で人工知能を研究する) Search term: "artificial intelligence" (人工知能) Result: No hits Since InnoDB’s full-text search assumes space-delimited languages like English, the following problems occur with Japanese: ...