[Sigia-l] search interface for cross tabs

[Avi Rappoport]

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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