Terry Catapano wrote:
> David,
>
> Thanks much for the advice. I assembled this exhibit rather quickly
> (one of Exhibit's great strengths, I believe) for demo/proof of
> concept purposes, but I do want to optimize it. With regard to the
> facets, it's I'll probably fold up the species in genera to reduce the
> number of topical facets. Is there anyway to make such a genus list
> expandable to list subordinate species when selecting a genus?
>   
No, right now we don't support hierarchical facets. How badly do you 
want that feature?

David

> Thanks again,
>
> Terry
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 9:17 AM, David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Donat,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing that with us! That's one of the more exotic topics
>> we've seen in exhibits so far :-)
>>
>> By the way, to speed up your exhibit, you might want to remove those
>> facets where the counts are mostly 1, such as the Taxa Described facet.
>> And for the timeline, it's probably not useful to color code by
>> ".label". Color coding by ".author" might be more informative.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
>> Donat Agosti wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Here our first go to create an exhibit based on the ant literature of
>>> Madagascar (http://plazi.org/?q=node/12). It is our testbed to explore
>>> extracting and making use of the published records of biological systematics
>>> publications.
>>>
>>> The simile tools Terry Catapano is using are essentially to showcase the
>>> data we generate by ocr-ing, applying taxonx-schema to mark up the texts to
>>> be able to extract individual descriptions of species. The entire system is
>>> hosted on http://plazi.org, and has an underlying DSPace repository and
>>> search and retrieval server.
>>>
>>> So far, thanks to all who helped getting this rolling.
>>>
>>> Donat Agosti
>>>
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