Map Menu Bar

Menu Bar

Every page of the eChase web site should include a common header with the most useful functionalities always available and a menu with the links to the main sections of the site.

Content

Links

The links of the menu bar can be grouped into three areas:

• Search
  • Advanced Search: make an advanced search using different techniques
  • Last Search: run the last search performed by the user. The Search Result page is shown

• Light box
  • Lightbox management: manage the user lightbox and its content
  • Active Lightbox: open the active lightbox

• Packages (Content aggregation)
  • Annotation and packaging: manage the content annotation and the content packages
  • Commercial transactions: manage transactions with the content owners

• mSpace Browser
  • mSpace Browser: Browse collection semantically using mSpace browser (see mSpace.fm)

Functionalities

• Authentication: we will provide a basic username and password authentication mechanism for the eChase portal
• Language selection: change the consultation language of the site
• Simple search: inside the home page and all the other internal pages, a "simple search" box should be always visible. Using this box the user should be able to run google-style queries, inserting just the keywords relevant for him, without care about the underlying data structure. After the search is run, the Search Result page is shown