MKWS demo client

% Using the MasterKey Widget Set to embed metasearching functionality in any web-site % Mike Taylor % 26 July 2013 Introduction ------------ There are lots of practical problems in building resource discovery solutions. One of the biggest, and most ubiquitous is incorporating metasearching functionality into existing web-sites -- for example, content-management systems, library catalogues or intranets. In general, even when access to metasearching is provided by simple web-services such as [Pazpar2](http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2), integration work is seen as a major part of most projects. Index Data provides several different toolkits for communicating with its metasearching middleware, trading off varying degrees of flexibility against convenience: * libpz2.js -- a low-level JavaScript library for interrogating the Service Proxy and Pazpar2. It allows the HTML/JavaScript programmer to implement simple JavaScript functions to display facets, records, etc. * masterkey-ui-core -- a higher-level, complex JavaScript library that uses libpz2.js to provide the pieces needed for building a full-featured JavaScript application. * MasterKey Demo UI -- an example of a searching application built on top of masterkey-ui-core. Available as a public demo at http://mk2.indexdata.com/ * MKDru -- a toolkit for embedding MasterKey-like searching into Drupal sites. All of these approaches require programming to a greater or lesser extent. Against this backdrop, we introduced MKWS (the MasterKey Widget Set) -- a set of simple, very high-level HTML+CSS+JavaScript components that can be incorporated into any web-site to provide MasterKey searching facilities. By placing `

`s with well-known identifiers in any HTML page, the various components of an application can be embedded: search-boxes, results areas, target information, etc. Simple Example -------------- The following is a complete MKWS-based searching application: MKWS demo client

More sophisticated applications will not simply place the `