Hi Donat, OK, that does seem very necessary in your use case... I'll let you know when I get around to make hierarchical facets.
David Donat Agosti wrote: > The hierachy of names is tantamount to the very basic nature of systematics, > the hierarchy of life. > Part of one would look like: > > Order > Family > Genus > Species > > Mammales > Hominidae > Homo > sapiens > > As Terry pointed out, having hierarchical facets would help because of > another characteristics in such hierarchies, that many parents have hundreds > of children, such as the genus Camponotus with 1096 species. Many of the > children, especially at the species level, are only described once, and > that's why those facets will only have count 1. Higher counts occur when > they have been redescribed. But they are nevertheless important, in fact > often the only trace in literature that such a species exists. > > Thus, yes it would be interesting to have such a hierarchy... > > Donat > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
