SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: [Sigia-l] search interface for cross tabs
Re: [Sigia-l] search interface for cross tabs
I'm working on some projects getting good results with Marti Hearst's
faceted metadata approach. Try the interfaces at
<http://flamenco.berkeley.edu> to see what I mean. The dynamic
previews with counts of the contents in the attributes avoids a lot
of dead-ends and frustration.
Avi
At 6:36 PM -0400 8/1/02, Claude Steinberg wrote:
>Wise ones in IA land,
>
>What is the best way to present front end search options for data in
>a database that can be cross tabulated in many ways? I'm currently
>working on a site that uses multiple drop down menus, but there are
>categories within the choices in each menu, not all combinations of
>criteria are possible, and the number of options gets so large that
>to keep them manageable, the page currently offers only a few
>options in each menu and then reloads with more of the available
>options in the other fields whenever a user selects an option in one
>of the fields, so if you've already selected options from fields
>higher on the page you may have to start all over on those fields.
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