[Dspace-general] entering custom keywords with drop-down list?

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

hi fellow dspacers!


i'm doing a dspace setup for a little research project. they want to use 
one collection for their published results and one as an internal 
document stash for research material - clippings and some dummy entries 
(metadata only and no documents).

they have made up their own keyword thesaurus to quickly categorize 
those clippings. i'm using dc.subject.other for the keywords, and i 
would love to have some sort of drop-down box in the submission pages 
where users can select one or more of those pre-defined keywords, 
instead of (mis-)typing them in by hand.

i'm aware that html <select>s do not scale very well for large keyword 
bidies, but they would be soooo nice to have in my particular case.
i've seen tab completion somewhere, which even better nice, scales well, 
but is probably very hairy to implement and requires client-side caching 
of the keywords......

any comments?

best,

jörn



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Jörn Nettingsmeier, EDV-Administrator
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort Duisburg
Mail: pol-admin at uni-duisburg.de, Telefon: 0203/379-2736