Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Brian Rossmajer wrote: > >> Just a few ideas on my mind; didn't want them to get lost: >> Brian, the best way is for you to experiment with them, get some feedback on this mailing list, and then we'll see how to incorporate them. It's really easy to add your own code to Exhibit, even without having to download Exhibit's code.
>> - 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. > Here's a quick prototype (take a look at the HTML code to see how): http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/publications2.html Without stemming, it's even noisier. >> - 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. > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
