Spelling Suggestions & Machine Tags
Two important updates that are only available in their SVN repositories for now are a spelling suggestion function in Scriblio and bSuite support for adding and editing machine tags — the cataloging data in Scriblio records.
The machine tag support will allow fixing of records and even original cataloging inside Scriblio. And the short answer for what a machine tag is? Think of it as a tag with a field name attached to it. Actually, that’s what it looks like, fieldname=value or subject=Future of Libraries. The cataloging for Beyond Brown Paper archive is done entirely in machine tags.
The difficulty with spelling is that the Pspell library is not available on a number of hosts that would otherwise work well for Scriblio/WordPress, and it’s very hard to build spelling support without that library. But having no spelling support is just embarrassing, so I’ve implemented a quick solution based on Yahoo!’s API that will run everywhere that Scriblio runs. The down side is that the spelling suggestions are not based on your collections actual content, so they might return some dead end suggestions. Still, it’s better than nothing, and an obvious next step is to vet any suggestions through the search index before the user sees them.
To get these goodies svn up both the Scriblio plugin and theme. Machine tag support is part of bSuite, available via SVN here.
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