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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] comments on 0.2.0
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:47:02 -0500

Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
> Chad Knepp wrote:
>
> >Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
> > > Chad Knepp wrote:
> > >
> > > >Stephanie Gerson writes:
> > > >
> > > > > CAN'T USERS SORT BY DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS? SORT
> > > > > ALPHABETICALLY, BY
> > > > > RELEVANCE, BY USER RANKING, ETC.?
> > > >
> > > >I think I'm beating a dead horse here, but if you can understand why
> > > >Google doesn't sort alphabetically then you can understand why I also
> > > >think it's a bad idea. Google displays the results first that it
> > > >thinks are the closest match to your search query.
> > > >
> > > Then, would it be possible for users to put search results,
> > > selectively
> > > chosen, for a series of searches on the same search string, into a
> > > cache
> > > and have PIW run a variety of sort routines on them (alphabetic, date
> > > submitted, characteristics, relationships rating [how well this object
> > > fits into known or potential
> > > relationships with other objects], user ranking, relevance, quality
> > > rating of data chosen to represent that object, and more?
> >
> >Yes, this is sort of along the line of filters suggested by Bear and
> >others. I don't think this is in the 1.0 feature set though, unless
> >other folks really want it now.
>
> I'd like to see it in 1.0 now, if that is possible. Reason is, I rely
> extensively on searches (Google for the
> most part) for info on arcane topics, like "lupine" and N2Fixation,
> optimum hosting conditions in farm soil for
> varieties of (which plants host which n2fixing bacteria and which soils
> do these bacteria exist in - surveys have been done for this type of
> thing))
> N2Fixing bacteria (and this means discovering RELATIONSHIPS with other
> lifeforms that are important in this context)
>
> I was thinking of something like this:
>
> user searches PIW for a string
> results are displayed in one or more pages
>
> each individual result has a check box beside it: "add to results cache
> page?"
> and at the bottom or top of each page you see: "display results cache now?"
>
> don't know for sure how this would look but, if the results cache page
> spilled out into multiple pages
> you would still perform sort routines on all of them at once and simply
> browse through multiple pages of
> reformatted results

I was actually talking about something a little different, but what
you are describing is in the works as an essential element to create
relationship sets, etc. Won't be hard to spin it off as a seperate
tool.

--
Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'




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