[GeoNetwork-devel] Comment/vote for Hierarchical Facets Support proposal

[Craig J. <Cra...@ut...>]

Hi All,

We've done some work at http://www.imos.org.au to include a hierarchical 
facet searching capability in our GeoNetwork 2.10 instance.

We've been using this functionality in our production system for some 
time now and we think this would be useful functionality to include in 
core GeoNetwork.  In particular  our faceted search had become difficult 
for an end user to navigate due to the long list of possible values 
which were displayed in each facet, and this has now been reduced to a 
simpler tree based drilldown to values of interest (refer 
https://imos.aodn.org.au/imos123/home) driven behind the scenes by 
lucene hierarchical facets functionality/GeoNetwork classification 
system support.

We have now fitted these modifications to a fork of the GeoNetwork 
develop branch and I've prepared a proposal and pull request which 
describes/shows what we'd like to incorporate into core (Refer 
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/wiki/201411HierarchicalFacetSupport).

This request is ready for review,  comments and/or inclusion (voting).   
Can you please review/comment/vote as applicable.

Thanks,
Craig Jones
Integrated Marine Observing System