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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >> >> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
