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

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Jörn,

This sounds very reasonable, and shouldn't be too hard to do by modifying 
the DSpace submission UI JSPs (which many institutions have done, to meet 
their local requirements).
If you need advice on how to go about that I suggest asking on the 
dspace-tech list (dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net)

MacKenzie

At 12:11 PM 6/21/2004 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>--
>Jörn Nettingsmeier, EDV-Administrator
>Institut für Politikwissenschaft
>Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort Duisburg
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