Digital Library — Requirements

1. Catalogue

• A central catalogue of DJI legal publications, kept in sync with the Institute's existing library system (Libero).
• Content types: laws, regulations and decrees, legal commentary, translations, journal articles, books, videos, and video courses.
• Three collections — Legislation, Publications & Research, Journals — each with subcategories.
• Bilingual details (title, description, authors, publisher, tags) for every item, in Arabic and English.

2. Browse, search & discovery

• Smart search in Arabic and English that understands the meaning behind a query, while still handling exact lookups (titles, author names, law numbers, ISBNs).
• Filter by category and type; sort by newest, oldest, most viewed, most downloaded.
• Grid and list views, pagination, and live counts per category.
• A discovery homepage: search, library statistics, featured and latest publications, and a category carousel.

3. Publication pages

• Full details: author(s), publisher, date, language, page count, ISBN, edition.
• Cover image, with an automatic coloured fallback when none is available.
• View and download counts; preview and share.
• Add to cart (paid) or download directly (free).
• Related publications.

4. Store & purchase

• Add to cart, with a clear distinction between free and paid items (price and currency, AED / USD).
• A cart to review items, change quantities, remove items, and see the total.
• Checkout and purchase; access to download purchased items afterwards.

5. Keeping content current

• Automatic, repeatable sync from Libero for details, cover images, and documents.
• Administrator choices (pricing, free/paid, featured) are preserved across syncs.
• Once a publication is approved (see §6), its content is prepared so it can be searched and cited by the AI researcher.

6. AI review process

Before a publication's content is made available to the AI researcher, a reviewer decides how much of it the AI may use (full, a portion, or none) and which file to use (the existing library file or a custom upload). A dashboard shows progress across the catalogue (pending, approved, in progress, done). Items already completed are never disturbed by later syncs.

7. Plan & timetable