- When a user searches on keywords or other terms expand search results to include items that were not actual hits from the search but related to items that were originally included in the result set. These could include works based on similar venue (journal, conference), subject terms, collaborators/co-authors affinities. There would likely need to be some indication they are second level references, and it would also be useful to boost some related items over others based on relevancy.
Notes: This depends on mapping relationships to items of similar venue (e.g. same conference, journal), subjects or genres, same authors, by co-authors or collaborators. The subjects and genres are of course standard repository stuff. Having people as objects that then map related collaborators as well as works they have created themselves is the trick. This definitely maps almost exactly to VIVO's use case, but really is a hybrid of what Fedora and VIVO are doing. VIVO could also be a more likely fit to uncover venue information that could then be correlated with intellectual work metadata in a typical Fedora repository.
The mapping of models could certainly reuse same/similar technology strategies outlined here: Sufia - Fedora - VIVO - Blacklight Interoperability (SufIVO/Sufitro)