== Ideas for query interface ==


== Faceted Browsing ==

=== Goals ===

We have a column with all the obects and apply a filter to get another column.

Filters could be
 * contains text (in any attribute)
 * contains text in a specific attribute
 * has certain object type
 * is directly related (to the (selected) objects)
   * not selecting anything and creating another column gives everything 2nd degree related 
 * is indirectly related (by a path)

The column is divided by object type.
 * clicking on an object type selects the type as a filter

Unfolding the object type shows the selected instances.
 * clicking on the instance selects the instance (show the direct relations in the next column?)

It should be possible to select attributes to display in the column. (Default own-value?)

Some objects would have more complex display rules, e.g. Witness showing author and title (from text).

=== Prototype ===

These goals are being partially achieved using a Python webapp based on the [https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/wiki/Home whoosh] search library and [http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/ Tornado] web framework. The prototype in development is hosted on !GitHub:

https://github.com/jamieklassen/ismi-search

==== Current Features Implemented ====

 * Filters -- all can be matched exactly or approximately:
  * contains text (in any attribute)
  * contains text in a specific attribute
  * contains text in any attribute approximately matching a query string
 * Results are sorted by object type
 * Unfolding the object type shows the selected instances
 * It is possible to select which attributes to display for each group of instances

Outstanding issues are tracked [https://github.com/jamieklassen/ismi-search/issues here].