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Introduction Video

Usage Guidelines

The Discovery Module enables faceted searching for your repository.

The Discovery Module enables your repository to haveIn a faceted searching.
Thussearch, a user can filter what they are looking for by grouping entries into a facet, and drill down to find the content they are interested in. 
So instead of user searching: \[DSDOC: wetland + "dc.author=Mitsch, William J" + dc.subject="water quality" \], they can instead do their initial search, \[DSDOC: wetland \], and then filter the results by attributes.

A website like Amazon, might do this to help you select a digital camera. You can reduce the results by price range, features, megapixels, manufacturer, etc.
The further the DSpace Discovery module is developed, the more useful that browsing can be to the researcher looking for items in your collectionsAlthough these techniques are new in DSpace, they might feel familiar from other platforms like Aquabroser or Amazon, where facets help you to select the right product according to facets like price and brand. DSpace Discovery offers very powerful browse and search configurations that were only possible with code customization in the past.

Instructions for enabling Discovery in DSpace 1.7.0

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