Case Study TLR
Case Study TLR
Toma Micro Publishers pioneered electronic publishing (Toma Legal Retrieve) in Nigeria and have used dtSearch Publish for many years to distribute searchable Nigerian Laws, Cases and Precedents on portable media; they wanted to offer a subscription service for searching the same documents online and chose the dtSearch Engine for Linux.
ElectronArt Design agreed to provide software to integrate the dtSearch Engine into their WordPress on Linux site and, to avoid the need for Toma Micro Publishers to migrate the site from its hosted shared WordPress site to a Virtual Server, decided to host the dtSearch Engine for Linux on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide Search as a Service.
WordPress Plug-in Index Manager
ElectronArt Design developed a WordPress plug-in Index Manager to allow secure uploading of files and updating of multiple indexes from within the WordPress Administrator page.
Custom Search & Help Pages
A custom search page allows logged-in subscribers to make Boolean searches from a choice of Laws of Nigeria, Precedents & Business Letters or Cases from multiple types of courts. Stemming and Synonym options are provided, and the paged search results feature a synopsis with highlighted hits. Documents are converted to HTML for display with highlighted hits and subscribers can also choose to view the original document.
Finally, ElectronArt Design supplied a customized Help file as a WordPress page so that Toma could edit or add links to FAQs, Tips, etc.
The Toma Legal Retrieve website was later updated to use the standard Search Cloud One WordPress plug-in and the API was used to transfer over 30,000 files onto the Search Cloud One AWS site.
This demo page was created with the WordPress plug-in, no programming was needed.
It demonstrates the use of filters to narrow the search without having to type a long query such as Title contains (Smith v Cotoco Freezing company) or Date Of Judgment contains (2016/01/21).
Try clicking the filter in the search bar, enter a Date of Judgment of 21 Jan 2016, click Apply.
PDF files were uploaded with custom properties created in Adobe Acrobat called Date of Judgment and Case Title. The files are automatically converted by Search Cloud One to HTML to allow multi-color hit-highlighting.
Try a search for – holden and fashion and ashi – click on the search result to view the document with each word of the search in a different color.
The 20 files in this demo are a small sample donated by Toma Legal Retrieve from their large collection of over 30,000 documents.
Other Search Demo pages
Classics – basic Boolean search
Cars Demo – faceted search