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Investigating the Effectiveness of Client-Side Search/Browse Without a Network Connection

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Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future (ICADL 2019)

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Search and browse, incorporating elements of information retrieval and database operations, are core services in most digital repository toolkits. These are often implemented using a server-side index, such as that produced by Apache SOLR. However, sometimes a small collection needs to be static and portable, or stored client-side. It is proposed that, in these instances, browser-based search and browse is possible, using standard facilities within the browser. This was implemented and evaluated for varying behaviours and collection sizes. The results show that it was possible to achieve fast performance for typical queries on small- to medium-sized collections.

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This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant numbers: 85470 and 105862) and University of Cape Town. The authors acknowledge that opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are that of the authors, and that the NRF accepts no liability whatsoever in this regard.

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Suleman, H. (2019). Investigating the Effectiveness of Client-Side Search/Browse Without a Network Connection. In: Jatowt, A., Maeda, A., Syn, S. (eds) Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future. ICADL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11853. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_21

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