I have been using Neatline and it does many things I have wanted from Omeka: namely, having items displayed on a map and a timeline on the same page.
Within Neatline exhibits, is there a way to have the public users be able to search the Neatline map and timeline? For example, for my database it would be great if a user could search for a specific tag word, in my case, names of gods or mythic creatures, and the results of those art items would be displayed on the map and timeline.
Outside of Neatline, is there a way to incorporate the (advanced) search functionality of Omeka to the geolocation plugin for public users? Or the standalone neatline timeline?
Many thanks! Jared.
Within Neatline exhibits, is there a way to have the public users be able to search the Neatline map and timeline? For example, for my database it would be great if a user could search for a specific tag word, in my case, names of gods or mythic creatures, and the results of those art items would be displayed on the map and timeline.
Not currently possible, but it sounds like an interesting feature to add. If you're interested, consider adding this as a issue on the Neatline issue tracker. Sounds like you really don't want an exhibit, you just want to display search results on a map and timeline simultaneously. Right? Instead of returning items that are used on a particular Neatline exhibit.
Outside of Neatline, is there a way to incorporate the (advanced) search functionality of Omeka to the geolocation plugin for public users? Or the standalone neatline timeline?
Not sure about Geolocation, but we have a ticket for Neatline Time for this kind of feature. Feel free to leave a comment on it if you have ideas for how it might work.
Hi mapmyth,
In Omeka 1.5.x there are some technical barriers for searching content created by plugins. The SolrSearch plugin allows you to write plugins for adding content to the SolrIndex in a json file (see https://github.com/scholarslab/SolrSearch/blob/master/addons/pages.json). However, this does require installing and tuning Solr (https://lucene.apache.org/solr/).
Are you wanting users to be able to create their own Timelines from the search results? Right now you can attach a timeline for an item, or the author of a timeline can prepare a view of the items through the editor.
The Geolocation plugin does have an advanced search features in the advanced search form; I believe you can set a radius search there...
HTH,
Wayne
Jeremy Boggs wrote:
"Sounds like you really don't want an [Neatline] exhibit, you just want to display search results on a map and timeline simultaneously. Right? Instead of returning items that are used on a particular Neatline exhibit."
YES! That is exactly what I want; in addition to traditional search results! I was trying to use Neatline to at least visualize the map and timeline together; but I still need the search capability and results display.
wsgrah, can SolrSearch plugin do this for me?
Any additional directions you guys might have, OR ways I can implement this utility is appreciated.
Thanks! Jared.
Are you looking for something like this: http://falmouth.lib.virginia.edu/solr-search/results/?q=*%3A*#uitab=0
SolrSearch can help, but you'd need to write a custom view in a theme to handle plotting the views.
You may also want to check out the Geolocation plugin; I believe it has some facilities for displaying results on a map...
Wayne
Hi Wayne,
The link to the Falmouth Project is close to what I am looking for, I like the way you can search all the items on the map and display the results; but the way they handle time is not the way I want to. It would be great if a visual timeline (like Neatline Time or like http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/timeline) was also displayed in association/linked with the Map and you can drill down or zoom out or search a specific "item(s)" for display on the map and timeline simultaneously.
Thanks for the tip on SolrSearch; I will have to look into that more--it just might be what I need to integrate a more robust search across plugins in Omeka. I'm currently using Geolocation plugin, but I don't think you can actually search the map itself like Falmouth, at least not out of the box
Thanks, Jared.
Hi Jared,
The time we did for that one was more because of the data than anything else. I will note that you should be able to use the NeatlineTime and SolrSearch and custom programming on the SolrSearch results to integrate more of a timeline interface with a map. Actually those plugins were what we abstracted out of that particular project to reuse. However, you may want to first start with the Geolocation plugin and the SimpleSearch result view in your theme (I believe it's results/browse.php) and pull in the search results in to NeatlineTime. I can't remember the hook for Geolocation, but I'm reasonably positive that there is a hook that there is a way to call the objects on to the GoogleMap.
HTH,
Wayne