By happy coincidence Mike mentioned the OpenDSM release yesterday on this blog. Paul Darby saw enough possibilities in the technology to blog about it himself. That was fortunate, because it reminded me that we haven’t mentioned the NRMToolbar site’s use of DSM.
The NRMToolbar site is a “set of online tools and databases to make it easier for NRM (Natural Resource Management) professionals to find and share relevant information.” The search on this site is a good example of the capabilities of OpenDSM. For example it lets your decide which repositories or content types to search, and - unlike many DSM installations - is configured to use the “Wait All” strategy for waiting for search results. Most installations use the “Wait Fast” strategy, which means that the engine will wait a configured amount of time, and then display all results brought back at that point, with a link which allows you to retry getting more results. “Wait All” means that the overall search can take longer, but will be more comprehensive because it has waited for all results.
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Nice description of the ‘wait’ strategies there, Nick. A new one currently being added to the mix is the “waitfor” strategy which instructs openDSM to wait for nominated repositories before showing any results (there is of course a max-time-to-wait param with that). So if you have key repositories then you can be sure they are shown on first view, without having to still wait for the slower ones. This will be released in the next couple weeks.
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