<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" id="m_-1315278463411624711gmail-docs-internal-guid-1cc27eda-7fff-fae2-4f28-c62ff695b13a" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi,</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="m_-1315278463411624711gmail-docs-internal-guid-1cc27eda-7fff-fae2-4f28-c62ff695b13a" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="m_-1315278463411624711gmail-docs-internal-guid-1cc27eda-7fff-fae2-4f28-c62ff695b13a" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sending this on behalf of our Reference and Instruction Archivist: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Searching our PUI delivers results of a lot of irrelevant records. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Does anyone have a solution or tips for limiting </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">results in the PUI for </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">keyword searching</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">, such that the user is not required to sort through or try to interpret extraneous results? </span></p><br style="font-size:large"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For example, in trying to locate just one Archival Object record that we have titled, “Provisional charter” (here's a link to the search results in our PUI: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/r327bt8a">https://tinyurl.com/r327bt8a</a>). Note that </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">one ends up with 11 Archival Objects records, only one of which is the Provisional charter. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The other 10 are located in the same Top Container. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">One <i>also </i>ends up with 691 Digital Objects! We know for certain that not a single one of these objects is the Provisional charter we are seeking. But a researcher using the PUI would not know this, and so would need to spend a lot of time trying to find the one archival object with the title, Provisional charter. These irrelevant results appear, we believe, because the Resource record the DOs are part of references a provisional charter in the Historical note. </span></p><br style="font-size:large"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is there a way to disable or limit certain types of results from appearing, when they are not relevant?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Many thanks,</span></p><p style="font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span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