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Watch the DSpace Discovery introduction video
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Since DSpace 46.0, Discovery is the default the only out-of-the-box Search and Browse infrastructure for both XMLUI and JSPUIprovided in DSpace. |
From the user perspective, faceted search (also called faceted navigation, guided navigation, or parametric search) breaks up search results into multiple categories, typically showing counts for each, and allows the user to "drill down" or further restrict their search results based on those facets.
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This is a classic "tag cloud" facet in a DSpace repository.
The legacy search engine (based on Apache Lucene) and legacy Browse system (based on database tables) have been removed from DSpace 6.0 or above. Instead, DSpace now only uses Discovery for all Search/Browse capabilities.
The new JSPUI-only tag cloud facet feature is disabled by default. In order to enable it, you will need to set up the corresponding processor that the PluginManager will load to actually perform the tag cloud query on the relevant pages. This is configured in the dspace.cfg configuration file using the following properties:
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Because Discovery was adopted as the default infrastructure for search and browse in DSpace 4, no manual steps are required to enable Discovery. If you want to enable Discovery on older versions of DSpace, please refer to the DSpace documentation for that particular version.
If you have upgraded from an older version of DSpace, your database may still include outdated "bi_*" tables (where "bi" = "browse index"). When Discovery is enabled, these tables are no longer necessary, as Discovery takes over this browse index function.
To clean up all these old "bi_*" tables, simply run:
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The configuration for discovery is located in 2 separate files.
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