Feature request: Presearch links in dataset metadatas ?

[rmo-cdsp]

I was wondering if some fields in the datasets could be "search" links ? For example, you have the list of authors in a dataset, and each author's name is a link to search all datasets of the author's name (a search from the root, as the already existent "facets"). The same thing could be done for keywords. This kind of redirection looks like the keywords redirection you have in wiki's websites kind. This feature would facilitate the navigation in Dataverse from a dataset view.

[pdurbin]

Thanks, @Grimaldum for opening this issue. Nice chatting with you about beforehand at http://irclog.iq.harvard.edu/dataverse/2015-09-29

To make this more concrete, the idea is to you're looking at a dataset such as https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/26212 and under author you click "King, Gary" (currently, this is not a link) and you are taken to a faceted search at the dataverse level such as https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/harvard?fq0=authorName_ss%3A%22King%2C+Gary%22 as if you had clicked on that facet under "Author Name".

[pdurbin]

@rmo-cdsp does my comment above help explain what you want?

[rmo-cdsp]

That's exactly the idea (sorry for the late answer :o ) !

[pdurbin]

@rmo-cdsp thanks. I agree this would be a nice feature.

[cmbz]

2024/08/26: A nice-to-have feature, but not clear if it is a must-have. @sbarbosadataverse will bring to the community and ask if this is an important feature. @jggautier notes that this is also related to the controlled vocabulary functionality which includes discussion about where users expect to be taken when they click on metadata values that are links.

[DS-INRA]

This is often asked in our installation but might not be needed for each and every field (most often asked for authors, affiliation, topics, keywords or species). We plan to implement this for keywords, where there are links to the vocabulary terms, but user also expect search links, to provide and differentiate both. Here are our mock-ups currently, feedback is more than welcome even if it ends up only in our use case: with the magnifier icon being the search: EN: Start a search in the repository for this term URL, with "Social Sciences" for example : https://{repository}/dataverse/root?q=&types=datasets&fq0=keywordValue_ss%3A%22Social+Sciences%22

Not directly related here but for the URI part: EN: See the term in the original vocabulary URL : Keyword Term URL metadata field value

[jggautier]

Very cool! I like that the tooltips might help others be more sure about what the icons mean and where the links will take them.

Another option might be having the text be a link and when someone clicks on it, both options appear. I've seen this done in other sites, most recently on the National Library of Medicine Dataset Catalog we heard about during the last community call. Here's a screenshot of what that looks like:

When you plan to implement this for keywords, will that be only for keywords added using the controlled vocabulary functionality, when a depositor can select terms from a list of suggested terms? Or would this also work for keywords where depositors have entered a URI in the recently-added keyword term URI field (https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/10288)?

[DS-INRA]

Thanks for the other option, very interesting too! We will try to get users opinion and ideally a bit of AB testing on these two to see what they like more, as we run interviews for this feature implementation.

We plan to implement it for all keywords, from the controlled vocabulary feature or not. In the case of terms specifically filled using the controlled vocabulary feature there should be an additional icon , linking precisely to the concept in the vocabulary catalog. But we are not sure to implement this depending on the users' feedback on the whole icon topic first and finding the best technical strategy to identify if a term comes from the catalog or not. Here's the current mock-up with said third icon:

[jggautier]

Ah, I'm confused about the difference between the second and third links.

• you wrote that the link behind the "AP" icon points "precisely to the concept in the vocabulary catalog". The screenshot shows https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/AGROVOC/c_4475
• you wrote that the link behind the blue ontology icon points to the vocabulary term. And that screenshot points to https://opendata.inrae.fr/thesaurusINRAE/c_15124

Don't those two links point to terms in vocabularies where users can learn more about the term? Do they serve other purposes?

I'm excited to hear about the AB testing!

[DS-INRA]

The first one is leading to a discovery portal, where users can learn more about the term and vocabulary. For the second, it is the URI. Depending on the vocabulary, it might lead to more information for users to, but it might also be a very machine oriented format or in certain cases no information at all.