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Another example: Using the standard search, a user would search for something like [wetland + "dc.author=Mitsch, William J" + dc.subject="water quality" ]. With filtered search, they can start by searching for [wetland ], and then filter the results by the other attributes, author and subject.

Discovery Changelist

DSpace

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General improvements:

• Browse interfaces now also use Discovery index (rather than the legacy Lucene index)
• "Did you means" spell check aid for search

• Sidebar browse facets that can be configured to use contents from any metadata field
  
  • Dynamically generated timespans for dates
• Customizable "recent submissions" view on the repository homepage, collection and community pages
• Hit highlighting & search snippets

DSpace 1.8 

• Configuration moved from dspace.cfg into config/modules/discovery.cfg and config/spring/api/discovery.xml
• Individual communities and collections can have their own Discovery configuration.
• Tokenization for Auto-complete values (see SearchFilter)
• Alphanumeric sorting for Sidebarfacets
• Possibility to avoid indexation of specific metadata fields.
• Grouping of multiple metadata fields under the same SidebarFacet

DSpace 3.0 

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• Hierarchical facets sidebar facets
• Improved & more intuitive user interface& more intuitive user interface
• Access Rights Awareness (enabled by default). Access restricted or embargoed content is hidden from anonymous search/browse.Access rights based results
• Authority control & variants awareness (homonyms homonyms are shown separately in a facet if they have different authority ID). All variant forms as recognized by the authority framework are indexed. See See Authority Framework

XMLUI-only:

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• Auto-complete functionality has been removed in XMLUI from search queries due to performance issues. JSPUI still supports auto-complete functionality without performance issues.

DSpace

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1.8 

• Configuration moved from dspace.cfg into config/modules/discovery.cfg and config/spring/api/discovery.xml
• Individual communities and collections can have their own Discovery configuration.
• Tokenization for Auto-complete values (see SearchFilter)
• Alphanumeric sorting for Sidebarfacets
• Possibility to avoid indexation of specific metadata fields.
• Grouping of multiple metadata fields under the same SidebarFacet

DSpace 1.7 

• Sidebar browse facets that can be configured to use contents from any metadata field
  
  • Dynamically generated timespans for dates
• Customizable "recent submissions" view on the repository homepage, collection and community pages
• Hit highlighting & search snippets

General improvements:

• Browse is now also based on the Discovery index, rather than the legacy Lucene index.
• "Did you means" spell check aid for search

Enabling Discovery

Because Discovery was adopted as the default infrastructure for search and browse in DSpace 4, no manual steps are required to enable Discovery. If you want to enable Discovery on older versions of DSpace, please refer to the DSpace documentation for that particular version.

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