Ideas for a query interface

​Original outline of faceted browser (2013)

Faceted browser

We have a result box with all the objects and apply a filter to get another result.

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)
  • select relation type
  • not selecting anything and creating another column gives everything 2nd degree related
• is indirectly related(?)

The result box 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

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

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

Result box types:

• table with one object per row, one column per attribute (configurable?)
• list with more complex display of objects (witness with title and author)
• graph
  • requires relations to be selected to be displayed
• map(?)
• chart(?)

The query should be saved.