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Selecting Datasets to be Shown in SOS Explorer®

There are over 140 datasets loaded onto your exhibit, including real-time datasets that will automatically update every hour. However, if you would prefer to restrict to a particular theme, for example, if your museum is an aquarium and you want only Water and People datasets to appear in the SOSx Search Window, you can do so. You will still be able to access all the datasets from TourBuilder but they will not show up in the SOSx Search Window.

Restricting Datsets by Category or Narration

Open local-datasets directory to find a number of small text files including tag_selection_bak.json. Open it.

This is the text you will find:

{
    "inclusive": true,
    "tags": {
        "Movies": {}
    }
}

An example where only narrated movies are included in the search window.

inclusive can either be set to true or false depending on whether you would like to include or exclude categories (tags), respectively.

{
    "inclusive": false,
    "tags": {
        "Movies": {},
        "Space": {}
    }
}

An example where narrated movies and space datasets are excluded from the search window.

When you’re finished editing the file, save it and rename it to: tag_selection.json and relaunch SOSx.

Available Dataset Categories

Air, Extras, Land, Movies, People, Real-time, Snow and Ice, Space, Tour, Water.

Datasets may be in multiple categories.