[Archon-L] Good thing it's Friday / "Advanced" Searching in Archon

[Kyle Fox]

Making the front end for the page could be fairly painless using
archon's template system. Developers could design the system to pass
along 'advancedsearch' or something similar through the f variable to
Archon's public index page.

Genre searching is already possible through this alone by passing a
value through the subjectid variable to the search results page. This
is what the "Browse by Subjects" page does when you click a subject's
name. Similar techniques can be used for creators, etc.

Things like searching by date range would be more complicated as they
would require changes to the api. The search functions in the api are
already pretty complicated, especially for collections, so any
interested parties would need to do a decent amount of planning to
figure out the best way of making these changes.

I'll make a note to consider implementing advanced search at UIUC for
distribution, but I'm not sure when this would be done.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:11 AM, David Malone
<David.B.Malone at wheaton.edu> wrote:
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> Has anyone tried to create a staff search page or an "enhanced"/advanced search page/engine for Archon?
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> Wheaton is a mutli-repository campus and one of our archives would like to do more in-depth searching out of the data that Archon keeps. I'm sure that this is possible as it is an extension of what Archon is already doing itself (but was not intended to do). I could imagine a page where someone could limit by date range or genre.
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> So, this is the question of the day (maybe--I could have another one).
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> Cheers,
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Kyle Jordan Fox


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