Just as another follow up. The kind of interface level features that
have been discussed in this thread are just half of what Manakin is
capable of providing. The other major component that Manakin has is
Aspects. Aspects are a modular mechanism to add computational
features to the repository's interface.
Aspects can:
- Add specialized searches
- Add shopping carts
- Add custom workflows
- etc....
Scott--
On Nov 16, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Leslie Carr wrote:
> On 15 Nov 2006, at 21:40, Robert Tansley wrote:
>
>> maybe for papers about the thermo-optical properties of chalcogenide
>> glasses, a bit more imagination is needed.
>
> We put our heads together to see what our collective imaginations
> could come up with, and voila
> The Researcher FlightPlan: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/perl/
> local/maps/flightplan?id=47
>
> This is an EPrints plugin that takes all the conference/workshop
> papers presented by a particular author (in this case Professor
> David De Roure) in a particular time period and plots the locations
> of the conferences using Google Maps. The locations are joined by
> lines indicating the chronological ordering of travel around the
> world. This could be a very useful tool to help find out where your
> senior academic colleagues are, will be or have been (depending on
> whether the repository contains pre- or post-prints).
>
> Disclaimer: the flightplan is approximate, as the mashup took place
> in an afternoon. In particular, conference locations (a standard
> EPrints metadata field) were looked up in a gazeteer, and so some
> place-name disambiguation needs to be implemented (Paris France or
> Paris Texas?) Also, not every conference paper has had its location
> metadata entered. Also, not every place name has been matched yet!
> Also, we haven't integrated the map into the normal repository
> interface as it is a production system!
>
> Still, it is a demo of the power of the Google/Yahoo/name your
> favourite web company Web 2.0 APIs.
>
> <SHAMELESS_ADVERT>
> We are so taken with these ideas that we have decided to include a
> selection of Web 2.0 display filters in the forthcoming release of
> EPrints v3, along with the Web 2.0 input autocompletion facilities
> that have already been requested. Longitude/latitude will be a
> standard metadata field for all eprints, so any repository manager
> can enable geographic metadata and map displays for their deposit
> materials.
> </SHAMELESS_ADVERT>
> --
> Les Carr
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