Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
If you are looking to build an application instead of getting an existing one, you can use Drupal and several modules to build it. There are several faceted search modules available (see http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/faceted%20search?filters=type%3Aproject_project). For a simple system, you can use: * Apache Solr module or Faceted Search module for faceted search. * Tagadelic for tag clouds * Community Tags for... uhm, community tagging =) * CCK to hold your content's fields * Views to make, uhm... views of it =) _alejandro Earles, Jill Denae said the following on 08/02/2010 10:58 a.m.: I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is also desirable. My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm looking for. Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed description of the system below. Thank you, Jill Earles Detailed description: I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or without lines between them. It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and comments about the work. -- _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *Ing. Alejandro Garza González* Coordinación de proyectos y desarrollo de sistemas Centro in...@te, Centro para la Innovación en Tecnología y Educación Tecnológico de Monterrey Tel. +52 [81] 8358.2000, Ext. 6751 Enlace intercampus: 80.689.6751, 80.788.6106 http://www.itesm.mx/innovate/ El contenido de este mensaje de datos no se considera oferta, propuesta o acuerdo, sino hasta que sea confirmado en documento por escrito que contenga la firma autógrafa del apoderado legal del ITESM. El contenido de este mensaje de datos es confidencial y se entiende dirigido y para uso exclusivo del destinatario, por lo que no podrá distribuirse y/o difundirse por ningún medio sin la previa autorización del emisor original. Si usted no es el destinatario, se le prohíbe su utilización total o parcial para cualquier fin. The content of this data transmission must not be considered an offer, proposal, understanding or agreement unless it is confirmed in a document signed by a legal representative of ITESM. The content of this data transmission is confidential and is intended to be delivered only to the addressees. Therefore, it shall not be distributed and/or disclosed through any means without the authorization of the original sender. If you are not the addressee, you are forbidden from using it, either totally or partially, for any purpose.
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
Hi Jill, The eXtensible Catalog (http://eXtensibleCatalog.org) provides similar funtionality. The user interface of the XC is a set of Drupal modules, and it runs inside Drupal, which probably the most popular PHP CMS application. Our modules (called Drupal Toolkit), are able to harvest metadata from OAI-PMH repositories, then process XML, save fields inside MySQL and in Solr. We provided administrator interfaces, where you can decide how to index different fields, what kind of facets do you want to build from the fields, and -- still inside the admin interface -- you can create search and browse interfaces, including search forms, navigationable lists, tempates for results. You can interact with your ILS for circulation data or authentication. You can mashup the results with additional data from external sources, like table of contents, cover images, reviews. The Drupal Toolkit is still in alpha release, we plan to issue the first more stable release in weeks. You can see more in the eXtensible Catalog screencast: http://www.screencast.com/users/eXtensibleCatalog (the second part is about the Drupal Toolkit). You can download the software from here: http://drupal.org/project/xc. If you have any question don't hesitate to contact me, or the leaders of the project. Regards, Péter Király http://eXtensibleCatalog.org - Original Message - From: "Earles, Jill Denae" To: Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:58 PM Subject: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is also desirable. My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm looking for. Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed description of the system below. Thank you, Jill Earles Detailed description: I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or without lines between them. It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and comments about the work.
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
Thank you to all who responded about this! Some of these look promising. Jill -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Graham, Wayne (wsg4w) Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:59 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing Here's on more thing to take a look at... there's a project named Raven (http://github.com/mwmitchell/raven) that one of the Scholars' Lab staff was working on as a research project. Essentially it takes XML (tested with VRA, EAD, and TEI) and builds out a faceted interface from a Solr index along the lines of XTF (just not quite as painful) in a Rails interface. You can check out a sample at http://raven.scholarslab.org/. If you're finding that there's not a solution that's doing what you need, this would be a great place to start building out a custom interface with whatever language you choose. HTH, Wayne On 2/8/10 1:39 PM, "Benjamin Young" wrote: Have you seen the Exhibit library (part of the Simile project at MIT)? It provides faceted browsing along with map integration: http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ It should be fairly easy to add to an existing project as it can consume a pretty simple JSON format that your app could provide. Since you're familiar with CakePHP, it would be very easy to turn parseExtensions on in your routes.php file and provide specific views for ".json" requests (they'd be stored in views/audio/json/index.ctp for instance). The Exhibit JSON format is based on some RDF concepts I believe, so if you're into that at all, it will be doubly enjoyable. :) Hope that helps, Benjamin On 2/8/10 1:31 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > I just checked up on CollectiveAccess' features, and the newest > version has faceting search/browse now, so you may want to try that. > They support uploading videos as well. > http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview > > Ethan > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > >> I think Omeka may be a good fit for you, but there currently isn't >> faceted searching, though a Solr plugin is currently in development. >> You have a very specific set of requirements, so I'm not sure that >> any single CMS/DAM will work in precisely the way you want right out >> of the box, but Omeka could very well be the closest thing. It's >> written in the Zend framework for PHP. I know that there is great demand for a Solr plugin for Omeka. >> It's in the Omeka svn repo, but it's not really ready yet for primetime. >> >> Ethan Gruber >> University of Virginia Library >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Earles, Jill Denaewrote: >> >> >>> I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that >>> include authentication, and easily support multimedia content and >>> metadata. The ability to add comments and tags to content, and >>> browse by tag cloud is also desirable. >>> >>> My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only >>> system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I >>> don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new >>> language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what >>> I'm looking for. >>> >>> Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might >>> be suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed >>> description of the system below. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Jill Earles >>> >>> Detailed description: >>> >>> I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia >>> artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with >>> accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the >>> content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via >>> searching and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a >>> couple of ways of visually representing the relationships between >>> items (for example, a video and the images and audio files that are >>> included in the video, and notes about the creative process). The >>> views we've conceived of at this point include a "flow" view that >>> shows relationships with arrows between them (showing chronology or >>> this begat that relationship), and a "constellation" view that shows >>> all of the related items, with or without lines between them. >>> >>> It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members >>> can search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there >>> would be an approval process so that a contributor could propose >>> making a work public, and if all contributors involved in the work >>> (including any components of the work, i.e. the images and audio >>> files included in the >>> video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The >>> public site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all >>> metadata that we make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the >>> ability to add tags and comments about the work. >>> >>> >> >>
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
Here's on more thing to take a look at... there's a project named Raven (http://github.com/mwmitchell/raven) that one of the Scholars' Lab staff was working on as a research project. Essentially it takes XML (tested with VRA, EAD, and TEI) and builds out a faceted interface from a Solr index along the lines of XTF (just not quite as painful) in a Rails interface. You can check out a sample at http://raven.scholarslab.org/. If you're finding that there's not a solution that's doing what you need, this would be a great place to start building out a custom interface with whatever language you choose. HTH, Wayne On 2/8/10 1:39 PM, "Benjamin Young" wrote: Have you seen the Exhibit library (part of the Simile project at MIT)? It provides faceted browsing along with map integration: http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ It should be fairly easy to add to an existing project as it can consume a pretty simple JSON format that your app could provide. Since you're familiar with CakePHP, it would be very easy to turn parseExtensions on in your routes.php file and provide specific views for ".json" requests (they'd be stored in views/audio/json/index.ctp for instance). The Exhibit JSON format is based on some RDF concepts I believe, so if you're into that at all, it will be doubly enjoyable. :) Hope that helps, Benjamin On 2/8/10 1:31 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > I just checked up on CollectiveAccess' features, and the newest version has > faceting search/browse now, so you may want to try that. They support > uploading videos as well. http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview > > Ethan > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > >> I think Omeka may be a good fit for you, but there currently isn't faceted >> searching, though a Solr plugin is currently in development. You have a >> very specific set of requirements, so I'm not sure that any single CMS/DAM >> will work in precisely the way you want right out of the box, but Omeka >> could very well be the closest thing. It's written in the Zend framework >> for PHP. I know that there is great demand for a Solr plugin for Omeka. >> It's in the Omeka svn repo, but it's not really ready yet for primetime. >> >> Ethan Gruber >> University of Virginia Library >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Earles, Jill Denaewrote: >> >> >>> I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include >>> authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The >>> ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is >>> also desirable. >>> >>> My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only >>> system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I >>> don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new >>> language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm >>> looking for. >>> >>> Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be >>> suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed >>> description of the system below. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Jill Earles >>> >>> Detailed description: >>> >>> I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia >>> artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with >>> accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the >>> content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching >>> and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of >>> visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a >>> video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and >>> notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this >>> point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between >>> them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a >>> "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or >>> without lines between them. >>> >>> It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can >>> search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be >>> an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work >>> public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any >>> components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the >>> video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public >>> site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we >>> make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and >>> comments about the work. >>> >>> >> >>
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
Have you seen the Exhibit library (part of the Simile project at MIT)? It provides faceted browsing along with map integration: http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ It should be fairly easy to add to an existing project as it can consume a pretty simple JSON format that your app could provide. Since you're familiar with CakePHP, it would be very easy to turn parseExtensions on in your routes.php file and provide specific views for ".json" requests (they'd be stored in views/audio/json/index.ctp for instance). The Exhibit JSON format is based on some RDF concepts I believe, so if you're into that at all, it will be doubly enjoyable. :) Hope that helps, Benjamin On 2/8/10 1:31 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: I just checked up on CollectiveAccess' features, and the newest version has faceting search/browse now, so you may want to try that. They support uploading videos as well. http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview Ethan On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: I think Omeka may be a good fit for you, but there currently isn't faceted searching, though a Solr plugin is currently in development. You have a very specific set of requirements, so I'm not sure that any single CMS/DAM will work in precisely the way you want right out of the box, but Omeka could very well be the closest thing. It's written in the Zend framework for PHP. I know that there is great demand for a Solr plugin for Omeka. It's in the Omeka svn repo, but it's not really ready yet for primetime. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Earles, Jill Denaewrote: I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is also desirable. My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm looking for. Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed description of the system below. Thank you, Jill Earles Detailed description: I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or without lines between them. It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and comments about the work.
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
I just checked up on CollectiveAccess' features, and the newest version has faceting search/browse now, so you may want to try that. They support uploading videos as well. http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview Ethan On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > I think Omeka may be a good fit for you, but there currently isn't faceted > searching, though a Solr plugin is currently in development. You have a > very specific set of requirements, so I'm not sure that any single CMS/DAM > will work in precisely the way you want right out of the box, but Omeka > could very well be the closest thing. It's written in the Zend framework > for PHP. I know that there is great demand for a Solr plugin for Omeka. > It's in the Omeka svn repo, but it's not really ready yet for primetime. > > Ethan Gruber > University of Virginia Library > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Earles, Jill Denae wrote: > >> I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include >> authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The >> ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is >> also desirable. >> >> My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only >> system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I >> don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new >> language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm >> looking for. >> >> Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be >> suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed >> description of the system below. >> >> Thank you, >> Jill Earles >> >> Detailed description: >> >> I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia >> artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with >> accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the >> content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching >> and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of >> visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a >> video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and >> notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this >> point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between >> them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a >> "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or >> without lines between them. >> >> It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can >> search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be >> an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work >> public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any >> components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the >> video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public >> site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we >> make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and >> comments about the work. >> > >
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
I think Omeka may be a good fit for you, but there currently isn't faceted searching, though a Solr plugin is currently in development. You have a very specific set of requirements, so I'm not sure that any single CMS/DAM will work in precisely the way you want right out of the box, but Omeka could very well be the closest thing. It's written in the Zend framework for PHP. I know that there is great demand for a Solr plugin for Omeka. It's in the Omeka svn repo, but it's not really ready yet for primetime. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Earles, Jill Denae wrote: > I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include > authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The > ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is > also desirable. > > My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only > system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I > don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new > language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm > looking for. > > Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be > suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed > description of the system below. > > Thank you, > Jill Earles > > Detailed description: > > I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia > artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with > accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the > content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching > and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of > visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a > video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and > notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this > point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between > them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a > "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or > without lines between them. > > It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can > search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be > an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work > public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any > components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the > video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public > site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we > make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and > comments about the work. >
[CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is also desirable. My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm looking for. Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed description of the system below. Thank you, Jill Earles Detailed description: I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or without lines between them. It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and comments about the work.
