Dennis and Alexei no doubt have already given this more thought than I 
have, and there is a 
set<https://bitbucket.org/arches/arches/issues?status=new&status=open&component=Advanced%20Search>of
 items marked "Advanced Search" currently on the issue tracker. Some are 
minor and even cosmetic, but others represent bigger improvements. Re: 
temporal search in particular, there are several things to say and others 
may add:

* There are multiple dates that can be associated with Resource (e.g. by 
specifying the bounds of a related cultural period, by recording a date 
obtained from an absolute dating method, 
and even the date when a condition was observed or when a building received 
legal protection). A way (and a design) for searching across or within 
these different pieces of information would be a good feature. An example 
of a search that would have obvious relevance for users would be a search 
for resources (maybe of a certain period) that have not been inspected 
since a certain date. I can probably think of others.
* A way to search for resources (and it's probably more helpful to think 
about searching for Activities and not Heritage Resources) before/after a 
certain date, or that were ongoing throughout a time period, etc. would 
also be a good feature.
* On the UI side, there is an old mockup that shows a set of sliders, and 
perhaps someone has a link to another web app where this has been 
implemented. 
* The project would probably have something to do also with how time is 
represented in the CRM.

I hope this helps a bit.

Yiannis

On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:17:59 PM UTC-5, Karl Fogel wrote:
>
> Yiannis Avramides <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: 
> >As has been said recently, some new development in the future will 
> >concentrate on Advanced Search during the LA customization, but there 
> >probably are parts of Advanced Search that could be profitably carved 
> >out for an effort like this, either because they are self-contained or 
> >because they are features that are not required by this particular 
> >dataset and implementation but would otherwise be useful. For example, 
> >one component might be a more robust temporal search that can 
> >integrate different ways of representing time and time intervals, and 
> >perhaps across Resource Types (I am thinking about Activities in 
> >particular). Koen, you might have something to add since I think this 
> >was/is a research interest of yours. I'm sure others have thoughts on 
> >this too. 
>
> This sounds like it might be a good SoC-sized project... could you flesh 
> it out a bit more?  (Give some examples of the kinds of temporal 
> searches you mean, etc?) 
>
> Dennis et al are compiling our SoC Ideas List right now (the Ideas List 
> is actually part of our application, so this step is not just for fun), 
> but they're watching followups here of course. 
>
> >And perhaps it's also worth looking at the Roadmap, since as Rainer 
> >pointed out there are some missing items that didn't make it into v. 
> >1.0. Import/export functions might be interesting possibilities, for 
> >example. 
>
> +1, yup. 
>
> -K 
>

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