cool, I'll be interested in checking that out.
For me, being able to do faceted searching on the free text results is
important. Ontoprise, if you're listening ... :)
The paradigm that makes sense to my users seems to be something like the itunes
faceted browsing interface.
Yeah, I think paralax is also a good example.
I can wait a few months, and Ontoprise, if you need any help to speed things
along, let me know. I've been wanting to get into their codebase more, anyways.
Philip?
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From: Laurent Alquier <lalqu...@gmail.com>
To: don undeen <donund...@yahoo.com>
Cc: smw dev list <semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 4:33:09 PM
Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] search extension development
Hi Don
If you can wait for a few months, Ontoprise has announced work on a faceted
browsing interface for SMW.
I am sure Philip or someone else from Ontoprise will comment on that :)
Woogle4MW has a lot of intriguing features (such as feedback on searches and
wanted links). I am in the middle of evaluating it on our wiki.
I would love to see something like Parallax
(http://www.freebase.com/labs/parallax/ ) as a faceted search / query
interface... which is close to what you are talking about with Exhibit result
formats.
- Laurent
On Jun 11, 2010, at 3:57 PM, don undeen wrote:
Hi all,
>I've been experimenting with various search tools for SMW, and there's a lot a
>very cool features distributed amongst them.
>
>What I'd like to work on, is bring the features I like the most, together into
>one tool.
>
>What I've been digging lately:
>1. Woogle4Mediawiki : this is the best indexer/free text search I've used so
>far. I like that it indexes the rendered page, which is necessary for all my
>externalData-built pages. And I've been happy with the kind of results I get,
>the ranking, etc. It works as a replacement to the existing search box.
>2. Semantic Results Format, with the Simile/Exibit/Facet Result filtering. To
>me, this is totally awesome, and the best way to leverage all this semantic
>information in my pages.
>
>
>Here's how I'd really like my searching/filtering to work:
>
>1. A free-text search, like already exists, which uses woogle for the
>results.
>2. Then, on the results page, I’d like to see the individual results,
>along with facets for particular properties. I’d like to use those facets to
>filter the search results.
>3. I’ll need to also be able to PICK which properties I want to use as
>facets, depending on the results returned.
>4. I may want to display particular properties for each returned page as
>well
>
>
>This functionality already exists, separately in different modules:
>“Ask query”: syntax let’s me decide which terms I want to use as facets, and
>which terms I want to display
>“Semantic Results Format” with “Exhibit” : handles the display of the facets,
>and the filtering, using AJAX
>“Woogle4Mediawiki” : handles the free-text search.
>
>
>What could be the best way to intergrate the intelligence of these various
>modules?
>I was thinking, one possibility, could be to extend the #ask query, to support
>a free-text search, which leverages woogle4mediawiki for that part of it, then
>uses those results to get the requested properties (using ASK syntax), passes
>through to Semantic Results Format, etc.
>
>
>
>What do you all think? Has work like this already been done? Are there
>existing function hooks I can tie in to? I wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel.
>
>
>Any comments, advice, criticism, etc greatly appreaciated.
>
>
>cheers!
>Don undeen
>Metropolitan Museum of Art
>
>
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