Hi Mr. Mackenzie...
Thank you... The information helped alot :)
best regards
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feel.
Sauleha
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:54:07 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Faceted Browsing in Dspace
>
> 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
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