[kepler-dev] Q: What's proper functionality in Digir Quick Search aggregation.

[Dan Higgins]

Interesting! And not what I expected! (I had expected an EQUAL match.) 
So, does that mean that the 'mephitis' search already includes all the 
subspecies?

Dan

Matt Jones wrote:

>That's wrong.  It should only return those that equal Mephitis macroura. 
>   Also, it would be much better if the second query were only a local 
>subsetting of the results that have already been returned, rather than 
>requerying the DiGIR providers.
>
>As Rob Gales and Aimee Stewart finish up work on the Taxonomic Object 
>Server and the associated Kepler actors to access it, we can expect the 
>way in which these DiGIR queries are conducted to change significantly. 
>  You might want to talk this over with Rob -- I'd like to get his 
>actors incorporated as soon as is feasible so that we can deal with the 
>name/concept mismatch more effectively.
>
>Matt
>
>Kevin Ruland wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi.
>>
>>When I do a Quick Search from the Ecogrid Digir service for the term
>>'mephitis', the quick search where clause is "Scientific name LIKE
>>mephitis".  The results are aggregated by Scientific Name and there are
>>different little folders for each Scientific Name.  The first few on my
>>screen are:
>>
>>mephitis
>>mephitis macroura
>>mephitis macroura macroura
>>mephitis macroura milleri
>>
>>etc.
>>
>>Now, if I drag, say "mephitis macroura" onto the canvas,  a dataset is
>>created.  The way it works now is it requeries using the where clause
>>"Scientific Name LIKE mephitis macroura".  This means that the resulting
>>dataset includes all the results which match the following:  "mephitis
>>macroura", "mephitis macroura macroura", and "mephitis macroura milleri". 
>>
>>Is this what is expceted?  Or does the user expect the folder to contain
>>only those records which EQUAL "mephitis macroura"?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Kevin
>>
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