More useful facet displays for dates
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Description
What kind of user is the feature intended for?
Data re-user
What inspired the request?
Improving data findability on QDR; User feedback
What existing behavior do you want changed?
Display of dates in facets: Currently, dates are simply displayed as individually, filterable years in the facet. That's un-intuitive, imprecise, and diverges from standard behavior in other search interfaces (that's why, I assume, date is rarely used as a facet in existing Dataverse)
Any brand new behavior do you want to add to Dataverse?
Some version of a date-range selector. Here are some implementations from other catalogs:
Princeton library discovery layer (cool visual + number implementation):

Summons library discovery layer -- has exact date input and common intervals

UK Data - barebones implementation but wanted to include a data repository

Any related open or closed issues to this feature request?
No
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the linked Princeton, Summons, and UK Data examples to compare date-range facet patterns. The issue does not name Dataverse files, tests, or entry points, so first locate the existing date-facet implementation and clarify the desired interaction. Done means replacing individual year filters with an agreed date-range selector.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100