Middleware Demo

In order to get a feel for why exactly you are in this workshop, for what the final goal is, and to demonstrate some of the workshop topics, we will run through some of the functionality of the existing DLPS production implementations of the following classes, searching and retrieving actual online collections.

• BibClass: http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/b/bib/bib-idx
  • Simple data
  • Cross-collection searching
  • Bookbag, SearchHistory
• ImageClass: http://fizzie.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=search&g=all&xc=1
  • Text metadata and images.
  • Cross-collection and collection specific searching
  • Display: results views and record views
  • Portfolios: creating adding, removing, opening
  • Sessions
• TextClass: http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/t/text
  • Most complex text data
  • Searching: cross collection, restrictions
  • Results displays
  • Bookbag, SearchHistory, Sessions
  • "search within Bookbag" and "search within this text"
  • Pageviewer: viewing page images
  • Wordwheel: browsing index of words appearing in text
• Finding Aids: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhl
  • EAD encoded data, fairly well structured
  • Keywords in context, outline views, full text of sections or whole Finding Aid