[Sigia-l] multiple search index usability/conceptual model

[robert.dornbush at ps.ge.com]

As is evidenced in the article/research paper in this month's ASIS Journal
[JASIS] by Wei Ma of the Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign:

A Database Selection Expert System Based on Reference Librarian's Database
Selection Strategy: A Usability and Empirical Evaluation...

They came up with "Smart Database Selector" a three tiered database
selection tool with a fairly simple [yet powerful] UI.

Check It Out!

-----Original Message-----
From: Ziya Oz [mailto:ZiyaOz at earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:40 PM
To: 'SIGIA'
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] multiple search index usability/conceptual model


"Broad, Jonathan" wrote:

> Then just present the user with the normalized set of terms, and
> add a layer on the back-end that queries each database with the term in
it's
> "scope".  That might be too much work, though.

Technically it'd be quite straightforward, but tedious. Conceptually
speaking, this is the same kind of work that DB access apps do when putting
a semi-graphical UI to SQL searches and tinkering with the query string to
optimize the search for any specific DB/SQL variant before sending it out.
It's another layer of abstraction.

Best,

Ziya

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