Re: [Treebase-devel] simpler search interface

[Rutger V. <rut...@gm...>]

Here's a taxon search, along similar lines:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4180059/treebase/taxonSearch.html

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Roderic Page <r....@bi...> wrote:

> 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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