Re: [Treebase-devel] simpler search interface

[Roderic P. <r....@bi...>]

Nice, but (Vince Smith used to say "nice, but" to me all the time, drove me nuts).

The list of results could be sexed up a bit:

1. show a thumbnail of the tree
2. show a thumbnail of the taxon the tree is about (via Wikipedia, EOL, etc.)
3. have facets so I can filter by taxa, date, author, etc.

OK, so that's maybe the next step. Regarding the search box itself

- it doesn't seem to recognise DOIs, e.g. 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.011
-how about interpreting numbers as study ids, NCBI tax ids, or PubMed ids
-doe sit support "standard" identifier abbreviations, "doi:", "pmid:", etc.?

Is there a full text index underlying the search (e.g., something like Solr or Elastic search)? That would make the search more powerful.

Regards

Rod


On 7 Feb 2012, at 09:53, Rutger Vos wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> here's a prototype of a simplified search interface: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4180059/treebase/query.html
> 
> It gives users the ability to just type any words, and the javascript infers whether the terms are identifiers or something else. It then turns the terms into a PhyloWS query and calls that. It would need some configuration to use the right predicates for each search page, but it would simplify things for users, and if power users want to see (and edit) the underlying query they can still do so.
> 
> Rutger
> 
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