Hi Mark, > I've been saying for some time that, nice as the DSpace user interface > is in many respects, it is not and should not be the only way to plumb > a DSpace archive. If it is (currently) difficult to get a particular > search style put into DSpace, may I suggest trying a different > approach. > > One could harvest metadata via the PMH responder, organize them any > way one wishes, and search them in any desired way. > I can't resist pointing out that this is exactly what "DWell" does -- the faceted browsing and search UI that is layered over DSpace via an OAI-PMH plugin for RDFized metadata. See http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Dwell or Richard Rodger's presentation on same at http://www.aepic.it/conf/viewpaper.php?id=212&print=1&cf=11
I think this is an excellent approach to building better DSpace UIs, and just leaves us with the problem of the underlying data rigidity, which I hope we can address by relying more on RDF or other rich metadata that is stored in the assetstore alongside the content files. The current DSpace metadata tables are great for managing content, but suboptimal for discovering what's in the repository (assuming we can get better discovery metadata from outside the system, somehow). MacKenzie -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
