Thanks for the kind words. My intention is to bake this as a patch and get it submitted — hopefully this week. But you both are probably right — something like this makes more sense as an add-on. Maybe when I have time — I’ll take a closer look at what’s been done here so far.

–TR

I’d second Dorothea’s request that you make this into a DSpace patch. Even as a “committer”, I cannot promise that we’d be legally allowed to distribute it as part of DSpace (that’s probably a question for MIT/HP or the Advisory Board), but I’m sure others would LOVE to add this in themselves.

Also, as Dorothea mentioned, DSpace does have some AddOn functionality in the works, which this would be perfect for (hopefully that link works..the DSpace Wiki is currently undergoing a migration to MediaWiki).

If you don’t have a chance to make a patch, or won’t be able to maintain it, you could just “copy” or link this post over on the DSpace wiki (once the wiki is stable again), and perhaps someone else can take on the maintenance, until it can be made into an “AddOn” for DSpace.

In any case, thanks for the great code! We’re hoping to be able to use it here at UIUC as well!

Thank you for the documentation. I’d pretty much resigned myself to using a pure dictionary search until I ran across your post. And then once I knew what to look for — well, then I was off and running.

–TR

Anyway, glad I could be a source of hackery inspiration!