Final JISCRI ProgressPost for PAXS: Plugins for Advanced Search and Export (for EPrints)
Title of Primary Project Output
PAXS: Plugins for Advanced Search and Export (for EPrints)
PAXS upgrades the search capability of any EPrints installation to add the following features:
- Significant search speed-up
- More accurate results (default EPrints search missed some results by not including all fields in results).
- Word stemming support (for example, a search for “cancer” will return documents that match “cancer”, “cancerous”, “cancers” etc.)
- Unicode coverage (for example, a search for “theatre” will match documents that contain “Théâtre”).
- Easy-to-use user interface (see screenshots below, which show that the interface allows users to add fields to the search, rather than having to scroll through all available fields one a large page on the default EPrints search).
Screenshot or diagram of prototype
Here is the PAXS interface for Advanced search:
Here is the standard interface for Advanced Search within EPrints
Link to working prototype
Link to end user documentation
Link to code repository or API
Link to technical documentation
Technical documentation can be found in the code builds on: http://paxs.mspace.fm/
Date prototype was launched
Prototypes launched on 11 September and 29 September.
Project Team Names, Emails and Organisations
Daniel Alexander Smith, ds at ecs dot soton dot ac uk, University of Southampton
Joe Lambert, jl2 at ecs dot ac dot uk, University of Southampton
mc schraefel, mc at ecs dot ac dot uk, University of Southampton
