[seek-dev] Re: [kepler-dev] When Searching

[Deana Pennington]

I misunderstood your question...I'm not a taxonomist, but I suspect 
that  any given taxonomic term might apply to only a couple of those 
fields.  With a given search term, they should know exactly which 
field(s) they are searching for.   Deana


Rod Spears wrote:

> I know the "Data" Search Tab and field is somewhat temporary... But 
> given that is what we have today and will have for sometime, should I 
> use the text in the search field to search every field in the Darwin 
> core schema (as Chad has suggested, which is obviously more costly 
> than search a specific field, but how costly I don't know) or should I 
> enable it so they can search a specific field? Since these are 
> scientists would it make sense they know what field they are searching 
> for?
>
> Rod
>
>
>
> Deana Pennington wrote:
>
>> I think you should make all of them searchable.  Deana
>>
>>
>> Chad Berkley wrote:
>>
>>> ahh, ok.  that wasn't clear from your first message.  I'm not an 
>>> ecologist so I'm not completely sure, but it seems like all of them 
>>> are important.  Is there a penalty for searching them all?  Is there 
>>> a domain scientist that can chime in on this?
>>>
>>> chad
>>>
>>> Rod Spears wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am in the middle of implementing all this and was wondering what 
>>>> fields "should" be searched.
>>>>
>>>> I have it all working, I am just making it more generic.
>>>>
>>>> Rod
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chad Berkley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Rod,
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're asking what DiGIR fields are currently being searched on 
>>>>> the grid, the answer is none.  To my knowledge, DiGIR does not 
>>>>> currently have an ecogrid interface so it is not searched.
>>>>>
>>>>> chad
>>>>>
>>>>> Rod Spears wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> When a search is done in the "data" tab what are the searching 
>>>>>> for in DiGIR?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ScientificName
>>>>>> Kingdom
>>>>>> Phylum
>>>>>> Class
>>>>>> Order
>>>>>> Family
>>>>>> Genus
>>>>>> Species
>>>>>> Subspecies
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rod
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Rod Spears
>>>> Biodiversity Research Center
>>>> University of Kansas
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>
>
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> Rod Spears
> Biodiversity Research Center
> University of Kansas
> 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
> Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
> Tel: 785 864-4082, Fax: 785 864-5335
>

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