Re: [Treebase-devel] simpler search interface

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

As a follow on, tools like Elastic Search http://www.elasticsearch.org/ could be used to provide some nice functionality independent of the current web site design. For example, you could set up a tool that consumed TreeBASE RSS to get the latest updates, pulled off the corresponding NEXML, added that to a search index, and provide a nice interface sitting on top. Apart from the initial harvesting there would be no more calls to the current TreeBASE database, leaving it to handle the data uploads.

A clean separation of data input from data output would go some way to curing TreeBASE's performance issues...

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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