You can submit your sitemaps to yahoo and use their BOSS API to search across multiple domains using domain=dspace1.domain.tld,dspace2.domain.tld,dspace-n.domain.tld. I believe yahoo is also working towards indexing dc meta data for the semantic web, and hopefully they will integrate this into their search api in the near future.
Alternatively you could use the SRW/U server and SRW DSpace plugin to search the DSpace database directly. Unfortunately you can only search one db at a time so you would have to combine your results before listing them on the screen. However, SRW/U does output results in dublin core xml so they are easy to format using an XSL transformation or some other type of XML manipulation. Regards Hayden John Preston wrote: > The individuals departments will want to maintain their own instances > in some cases, thus I need to be able to search across them in these > cases. > > John > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Dorothea Salo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:14 PM, John Preston <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> My use case involves running a number of DSpace instances in various >>> departments, and collaborating entities that hold digital materials >>> (text, image, video, spatial, etc). I need to have a central point for >>> users to search across all these instances. Some of the instances may >>> not be public. >>> >>> The Carrot2 software looks interesting from my perspective. >>> >>> Anyone think I'm going in the wrong direction? >>> >>> John >>> >> Why not have one DSpace with Manakin theming and individual-collection >> policies on access? Seems to me that solves the problem, although it >> may not be feasible if individual departments insist on owning their >> entire DSpace. >> >> If you're running the whole shebang, though, it seems workable, and >> might even be less work than the alternatives. >> >> Dorothea >> >> -- >> Dorothea Salo [email protected] >> Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw >> University of Wisconsin >> Rm 218, Memorial Library >> (608) 262-5493 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) >> software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to >> build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of >> local >> resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and >> Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com >> _______________________________________________ >> DSpace-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
