> Hi Kelli!
> Can it do advanced searches?
> It can do sophisticated searches. And if you wanted to create pages
> with lots of buttons, those searches can be made more complex. Here's
> a URL for a keyword search for "camp", limited to those items tagged
> "interior" from 1921:
> http://beyondbrownpaper.plymouth.edu/search/camp?post_tag=Interior&dy...
> But getting there was a matter of clicking the facets. You could
> create one, but by default there's no complex search screens into
> which users enter the details of their search.
> How long does the search function take to implement? Can it be
> customized?
> Scriblio can be installed in about ten minutes. There's no specific
> configuration for the search function necessary, but you can customize
> it using a variety of criteria.
> Is the user interface customizable?
> Yes. Start here for examples:http://themes.wordpress.net/
> Are the browse options customizable?
> Yes. Any facet you can get from your data is available for browsing.
> What is the speed of deployment?
> After the ten minute install? To customize it for your site you might
> customize the theme, and for a digital collection such as you
> describe, you'd likely have to build a harvester script to get the
> data from the source and parse it for Scriblio. The time for those can
> vary greatly, but there are a lot of examples to start with.
> Can you extract data for future migrations? If yes, in what format?
> Wherever you get your cataloging data is probably your best source if
> you were to migrate elsewhere, but there is a lot of great data inside
> Scriblio, especially the comments. That said, you can get data out via
> RSS and Atom, and export the contents of the collection (including the
> comments) as XML. You can also extend Scriblio to output data in other
> formats (HKUST built OpenSearch support) and verything is stored in a
> MySQL database, so you can always extract the data from there. We
> don't have one yet, but I've got plans to build an OAI interface too.
> Does it support the following data types: EAD? TEI? Descriptive
> metadata (what kinds)? Preservation metadata? Structural metadata?
> Data is data is data.
> Does it support other formats (sound, video, pdf, etc)?
> Content is content is content.
> Okay, so those answers are flip, but Scriblio doesn't care what kind
> of data or what kind of content are in it. It's a big truck.
> Support? Can the user fix problems or do we have to wait for fix from
> Scriblio? If Scriblio, how long is the avg. wait?
> Scriblio is free, open source software.
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Kelli Bogan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I am the archivist at Colby-Sawyer College and we are thinking about
> > using Scriblio as the interface for our digital archives. Before we
> > do, we have several questions about Scriblio's capabilities that I was
> > hoping you might be able to anwer for me.
> > They are as follows:
> > Can it do advanced searches?
> > How long does the search function take to implement? Can it be
> > customized?
> > Is the user interface customizable?
> > Are the browse options customizable?
> > What is the speed of deployment?
> > Can you extract data for future migrations? If yes, in what format?
> > Does it support the following data types: EAD? TEI? Descriptive
> > metadata (what kinds)? Preservation metadata? Structural metadata?
> > Does it support other formats (sound, video, pdf, etc)?
> > Support? Can the user fix problems or do we have to wait for fix from
> > Scriblio? If Scriblio, how long is the avg. wait?
> > Any answers that you can provide to me about these questions would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance,
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