Hi Sauleha, > I read the comversation regarding the comparison of Dspace and > Longwell in terms of faceted browsing... It was very helpful... > What I could comprehend from the discussion was that we don't > have faceted browsing in Dspace and this issue is currently being > worked upon. What I couldnt understand was the difference between > Longwell and Dspace... We say that "Both DSpace and Longwell provide a > faceted browsing user interface for navigating metadata".. does that > mean that there is no need to have faceted browsing in Dspace??.. Can > you please give your kind comments? I would say that there *is* faceted browsing in the current DSpace UI, but it's very simple and not easy to change. This is the "browse by author/title/subject/date" option provided in the discovery UI.
There are also very good UI tools that include faceted browsing and can be "dropped on top" of DSpace, including Blacklight, Longwell, or commercial products like Endeca. These use a variety of ways to get the metadata from the DSpace database, and they typically link back to DSpace to display the resource. It sounds like Christophe, and possibly others, are working on alternative approaches like adding more flexible faceted browsing support directly to the DSpace discovery UI. You can read more about Fresnel here: http://www.w3.org/2005/04/fresnel-info/ Think of it as CSS for RDF-encoded data. It was an attempt to create a standard for styling RDF, but it doesn't look like it's gotten very good adoption so I would probably look at other alternatives (e.g. RDF/A) Hope this helps, MacKenzie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
