Dynamic Collections

[pgulley]

Add the ability to search against a 'filter collection' in addition to a manually defined collection as we have now. A "filter collection" would match sources based on a filter against, ie, primary language, country of origin, etc.
This would mostly be an additional kind of Search behavior, but there are various ways to implement in the Directory side. Is it an ephemeral filter, at the search interface level, or a persistent filter object stored in the directory somehow? How is it serialized for sharing via URLS?

[rahulbot]

We had this in the legacy tool, where you could choose to use a set of filters to define the collection you were searching against. This supported the metadata at the time like pub-country, language, media-type. It was a complex implementation in the UI, and supported only ephemeral definitions (but they did persist across the URL so you could bookmark searches with them).