Brian Rossmajer wrote: > Just a few ideas on my mind; didn't want them to get lost: > > - a 'keywording' list facet, which breaks up the words in its > expression, and shows the words as its items. I suspect > this will push the limits of the database... but the > power to explore would be expanded a lot I think
This was explored in Haystack by "Magnet" http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/papers/magnet-sigmod2005.pdf and I've also used it myself in the 'metaexhibit' (the exhibit of all the exhibits) breaking down the exhibit titles into words by tokinzing on whitespace and create facet values that way (but this is done during the generation of the json file). The result gets very noisy without a list of very common words to remove... and such stop word list is very language sensitive so it would be hard to write... Lucene has all the code to do this (and Magnet in fact, used lucene to generate the word lists) but porting all that in javascript feels not only slow but also painful.... so I'm not exactly sure this should be a feature of exhibit and could be a feature of whatever generates the data that exhibit uses. > - an facet 'invert' icon that would toggle all items > (I think this belongs at the top where the 'Clear these > selections' checkmark is) I never felt the need for this > - a facet sort option icon that would cycle through > possible sort orders (count, value, reverse count, reverse > value) because sometimes the sort order I chose when > making the page isn't the one I want *now* :-) While I constantly feel the need to change sorting order of the facets. -- Stefano Mazzocchi Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
