Advanced Search as a separate module (Currently part of Islandora Core)

[Kirsta Stapelfeldt]

Dear Islandora,

 

As part of current efforts in the slack channel #starter-dev to configure the new Islandora Starter Site, I’d like to propose we include the abstracted Advanced-Search module, based on the existing sub-module in Islandora core . An issue about this from December 9 2021  is here:

 

https://github.com/Islandora/documentation/issues/2001 and the module with documentation is available here: https://github.com/digitalutsc/advanced_search/tree/contrib

 

We are using this module in production at UTSC. I believe that this is a good option as it is more theme agnostic. I also believe that since it is an abstraction of a module currently inside Islandora Core as a sub-module, it is in line with our hope to modularize existing Islandora code. We’d be happy to transfer it to Islandora-Labs (or the main Islandora organization on GitHub) if that’s a good solution.

 

Please weigh in with any thoughts on the relevant ticket and/or let us know your thoughts on #starter-dev

 

Thank you,

 

Kirsta (wearing a UTSC hat today)

 

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[Noah Smith]

Having this be a separate module definitely makes sense to me... ~Noah

[Rosie Le Faive]

We discussed this today at the tech call.

There is general support of the idea, but we want to figure out the following:

* How are existing users of advanced_search going to migrate to the new version? Is there a way to port old config settings, as well as take care of all block placements (which may have complex conditions)?

* (Which kind of conflicts) can we introduce this module, and deprecate the submodule, gradually?

* Can we do the transfer in a way that the new git repo starts at the current islandora commit, and then the additions are merged in, like as a pull request? (Ensuring preservation of islandora history as well as any changes made since the module was forked).