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
>>
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