UI Feedback

Feedback from Nescent:

• Is it possible to have items only at a single level show up when we facet things? We're all finding it slightly odd that when you facet by collection, the collection itself is included as an entry in the list that is returned. It's also a bit confusing to have both items and their bitstreams show up as two separate entries within a collection, as is happening in a few cases. We understand if this is a structural fact of the repository, but if we can better format the metadata to mitigate it, let us know.

• Is it possible for faceting on Collection Group to return only a list of Collections in that group, rather than all of the files? Alternatively, is there any way we could introduce a splash page or readme/index file when somebody facets on the collection group? There will be thousands of items in the eventual deposit, so we're concerned about people being able to find their way around effectively.

• How are the items ordered within collections? If we wanted to add a readme file for each collection, could we ensure that it would appear at the top of the list? If that means we need to put it first in the list of files we're ingesting, we can absolutely do that.

• Can we have different metadata appear in the overview metadata that's seen in the items list? Currently it's showing Collection and Type, but we think Temporal would be useful, since we'll have in some cases multiple items with the same title but different dates (e.g., yearly reports over several years).

• And finally, a possible bug report. When the NESCent collection group isn't selected as a facet, both versions of the Mammal Feeding collection appear as having 17 items. When the collection group is selected as a facet, the 'smaller' collection still has 17 items, but the other only has 8. We're not really sure what could be causing this.