[Sigia-l] Resources for Database Search Screens?

[Peter Merholz]

MK--

May I suggest looking at Flamenco, produced by folks at the School for
Information Management System at UC Berkeley, as a possible direction for
your image search?
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html

Their test data uses architectural imagery:
http://flamenco.sims.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/flamenco/production/FrankenMatrix?
stylesheet=frank

What's nice about it is that you don't need an "advanced search"... The
fields of the database are exposed to the user, but in a way that is
meaningful for the audience.

Anyway, I'd argue that what you might find that, as long as they images are
descriptions are coded with a good and extensive controlled vocabulary, that
a "Title/Subject/Description" search might really suffice.

You might want to look at Getty Images' (http://www.gettyimages.com/) web
site for ideas... It starts with a simple keyword search, but each image
exposes a host of keywords you can click on to instigate a new search. Great
for exploring.

--peter
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> Greetings SIGIA Folks -I'm longtime lurker but not-too-frequent poster
> who's banging her head against how to put together the search screens
> for an database of digitized historical items (photos, sheet music,
> railroad timetables, tintypes...).  I've reviewed a couple of websites
> with image databases (such as the National Gallery of Art) and am trying
> to come up with an example to give our programmer of what fields to
> include in an "Advanced/Expert" search screen. At the moment the plan is
> to have a Basic/Keyword search which would scan the Title, Subject, and
> Description fields (rather than forcing the user to deal w/LC subject
> headings) but we need to come up with an option for more detailed
> searches.  It may be procrastination on my part, but I wish I had some
> examples of what types of screens worked/didn't work or if there was a
> really good example of how to create a detailed/Boolean search screen
> that wouldn't scare off the local history buffs and 4th graders we're
> designing this project for.
>
> thanks for any suggestions,
>
> mk taylor .: program manager sacramento history online
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