I agree with Les on the initial "wow factor" reaction, but in parallel
there is perhaps also an "eeow" factor. Is anyone considering the
preservation implications for these kinds of "deposits"?
Douglas wrote:
>"I'm looking forward to Piglet Squid: the Movie."
And perhaps also "The Life Archiving with Steve Zizzou"
Paul Wheatley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:JISC-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
> Sent: 16 November 2006 08:42
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> Subject: Re: Web2 repository interfaces Was: spotted in an EPrints
> multimedia repository
>
> On 15 Nov 2006, at 21:40, Robert Tansley wrote:
>
> > However, emitting HTML is the last step of a rather longer chain.
> I hope my previous email didn't imply that I was trivialising the
> repository's achievement. When I saw it for the first time, I was
> gobsmacked (the wow factor) and I couldn't see how it worked. I
> thought that you must have completely rewritten the repository and
> changed the underlying model to achieve those results. Then it dawned
> on me that fundamentally, it was still collections of material being
> displayed in a user interface and the repository model was exactly
> the same. Of course, the user interface was much more complex (and
> wow-y), but thanks to a high level API, in abstract terms it's still
> just a interface component.
>
> > The piece of technology that makes those geo sites
> > work is Manakin, an Apache Cocoon-based UI framework (that will be
> > replacing the current DSpace JSP-based UI), which amongst many other
> > things covers e) very nicely for repositories that contain lots of
> > different kinds of data.
> Could you explain this a bit more? All the Manakin explanations that
> I've looked for have briefly mentioned internationalization and
> corporate branding and then got very technical. Why is Manakin needed
> for this example? What does it provide that Web2 stylesheets / script
> combos can't?
>
> Here's some other questions- you may need to refer me to someone
> else. (I don't know what your relationship is to the site.)
> - Is the map used for deposit as well?
> - Is there a practical limit on the scalability of web 2.0 or the
> graphical display that puts a limit on the applicability of the
> technique - the URL that you gave shows a map with 11 items, but
> displaying a map with the whole collection (200+ items) takes about
> 30 seconds to display. Also the map becomes very overcrowded. Do you
> have any suggestions about the best way of deploying these techniques?
> --
> Les
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