On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:40:33AM +0100, Christophe Dupriez wrote: > To be constructive and pragmatic, my main technical challenge remains: > adding "thesaurus based" query expansion to DSpace to be able to mimic > PubMed searches exhaustivity and precision in DSpace (we now have 75 > thousands documents in our internal repository. MeSH is 30 thousands > subjects headings). I will keep focused on this.
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. One could install, for example, an SRU interface such as OCLC's and build or adapt an external search tool to drive it against the archive's live indices. Should such external searching tools prove widely useful, they could generate interest in porting them into DSpace. If they embody a well-thought-out modular architecture, the porting should not be difficult. In any case they would be usable as-is. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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