The faceted browsing provided by the default DSpace UI is very minimal... it's just the "browse by community/date/author/title/subject" option in the navigation bar of the home page. But it is customizable, and it is faceted browsing... it's just limited to DC elements stored in the database tables.
Tools like Blacklight and Longwell can take actual content items that happen to have structure and expose those in a faceted browsing UI. That's what we do for non-DC metadata like IMS or locally-invented schemas... we store the metadata as a content file, use a separate UI tool to extract the metadata and expose it in a UI, then link back from the metadata to the related DSpace content files in the normal way. That's been working pretty well, and provides a lot more flexibility than the default UI. So your approach sounds very reasonable, except that you don't have to "replace" the DSpace default components, you can just override them, which is much easier. MacKenzie Christophe Dupriez wrote: > Dear MacKenzie, > > I do not see facetted browsing in DSpace. > Did I missed something? > > By facetted browsing, I mean the service BlackLight proposes that you > can see at Stanford Libraries: > http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ > Please look at the column "Focus your Search". > > I am planning to work on this issue: > * based on my current work about integrating SKOS thesauri and authority > list in DSpace: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/dspace/handle/2077/21341 > * replacing Lucene by SolR-1.4 for DSpace indexation/retrieval to allow > N-Gram searches and Facetted browsing > + adding faceted search in the DSpace UI > * OR adding custom code above current Lucene implementation to create > facet information > > Thank you for the clue about Fresnel lenses: I am interested to learn > more on this. > > Have a nice day! > > Christophe > > MacKenzie Smith a écrit : > >> 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
