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Manakin XML UI for DSpace 1.5

April 30th, 2008

Mark Diggory

Look & Feel

• CSS, HTML layout

Branding

• Repository
• Communities
• Collections
• Items

Visualization

• Interpret metadata
• Link metadata
  • can serialize metadata to JSON

• Explain metadata

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Tiers

1. Style Tier

   1. Simple themes
   2. XHTML + CSS
2. Theme Tier
   1. Complex themes
   2. XSL + XHTML + CSS
3. Aspect Tier
• Add new features

• Introducing new content into pipeline
• Introducing new functionality
• Cocoon + Java

Resources

Documentation

• DSpace manual
• Theme writing tutorial
• Mailing Lists

Cocoon

• DSpace will use Spring-based Cocoon in future
• Understand the Cocoon Pipeline. Manakin imposes another model on top of Cocoon (themes, styles, aspects)
• DRI Schema - Abstract representation of a repository page
• Metadata elements
  • References out to METS
• Structural elements
  • TEI (Lite)
• defines logical structure for rendering content

  Aspects:

• Applied to all pages (even if they don’t add anything to page)
• DRI abstracts away characteristics to be rendered later in HTML (”highlighting” for bold, italics, etc.)
  • DRI -> XHTML default template in Manakin (base XSL library). Custom XSL overrides templates in base.
• Aspects apply transforms to the DRI
  • Base XSL library:
    • Package
    • Structural display
    • Metadata handlers - generally broken up into Lists and Views
      • SummaryList
      • SummaryView
      • DetailedList
      • DetailedView
  • Have access to all the Request Objects and methods throughout the Aspect chain.
• Themes should ideally be packaged up as webapp overlays

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