Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-17 Thread Stephens, Owen
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens If you haven't already, I'd suggest that you poke around in the IxDA mailing list archives (http://www.ixda.org/). I find that list (and its members) invaluable for design/usability best practices (often backed up

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-17 Thread Susan Teague Rector
Peter Morville has been putting search examples into a flickr collection for an upcoming book he's writing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/morville/collections/72157603785835882/ and http://www.findability.org/archives/000194.php There are some great examples of both simple and complex search

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
for Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Schlumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:45 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens How about dispensing altogether with the basic/advanced dichotomy in a search interface? Just create

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-15 Thread Sean Hannan
If you haven't already, I'd suggest that you poke around in the IxDA mailing list archives (http://www.ixda.org/). I find that list (and its members) invaluable for design/usability best practices (often backed up with published research). Luke Wroblewski's blog

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-15 Thread Riley, Jenn
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jordan Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 5:01 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens Hi David, You might want to consider an advanced search interface that offers a varying number of options. We've

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-15 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens I'm working on an advanced search screen as part of our WorldCat API project. WorldCat has dozens of indexes and a ton of limiters. So many, in fact, that it's rather daunting trying to design it all in a way that isn't just a big dump of fields

[CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-14 Thread Walker, David
I'm working on an advanced search screen as part of our WorldCat API project. WorldCat has dozens of indexes and a ton of limiters. So many, in fact, that it's rather daunting trying to design it all in a way that isn't just a big dump of fields and check boxes that only a cataloger could

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good advanced search screens

2008-11-14 Thread Mark Jordan
Hi David, You might want to consider an advanced search interface that offers a varying number of options. We've done this to a certain extent in the PKP Metadata Harvester for schemas more complex than Dublin Core. An example of a harvester that has some MODS in it is at