I'll take a quick stab at this. Both DSpace and Longwell provide a faceted browsing user interface for navigating metadata. DSpace does so for the metadata stored in its internal database (typically DC metadata related to deposited items) and the UI is provided by either JSPs or Mannakin.
Longwell is a separate application that supports faceted browsing and search of *any type* of metadata that is encoded in RDF, so DSpace DC metadata is one type that it can handle. This is similar in concept to tools like Blacklight, but optimized for RDF data. Longwell requires UI customization using "Fresnel lenses" (like CSS for RDF) and can be complicated to implement, but is very powerful and scalable. At this point there are very few Longwell installations outside MIT and we're doing minimal maintenance on it, so you should only use it if you are prepared to provide your own support. In the past we've explored using Longwell as an alternative to the default DSpace UI for discovery in a prototype called DWell. It's not in production, but we do plan to do further work on it this spring. I hope this helped a little, MacKenzie AMJAD USMAN wrote: > Respected All, > can anyone tell me what are the major differences between dspace and > longwell browser. > which one is better in which perspectives ? > > waiting for your replies.. > > Regards: > Amjad > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign > up now. <https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969> -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
