Introduction

The Collection Display and selection component of MONK will display the list of collections available for analysis. It will provide an interface to display the names of the collections, the meta data associated with the collection and a method of discovering and searching the collection meta data. Based on the search and discovery the user will select the collection for analysis, this selection will be persisted at the server tied to the user and session initiated.

Service Dependency

Methods to call:
-Retrieve List of Collections (name and meta data)
-Search for a Collection.
-Display meta data for a collection.
-Display collection properties, for example what all features are available and indexed.
-Retrieve list of selected collections.

List of Collection properties

-title/author/time period/availability (public/private)
-list of chunks available and quantitative information about the chunks (count of say paragraphs/chapters)
-list of types of chunks available.

Server Object Model

// TBD

Persistence Requirements

-save collection list selected for analysis.
-attached user comments

Renderer

Renderer for the Collection display and selection will display the collection specific information, or messages from the
server.

Samples

Feature Lens

Nora

NORA implementation has a dropdown box for collection list. The user can only select one collection at a time.

Wordhoard

Wordhoard has a very elegant sytem, with list of collections as tabs and a table of content for each collection

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