Survey: most wanted features in a web interface

Hi all,

we're about to finish 0.9.9, and a completely rewritten PHP web
interface will be one of its highlights. Below is a list of the
current features. Please feel free to send in your comments and
suggestions for additional features. If time permits, we'll check if
anything else is eligible for inclusion into 0.9.9.

- simple search: search by author name, publication year, title,
  journal, or keyword

- advanced query: use booleans and several match types to build
  complex queries

- the search results are displayed with author names, periodicals, and
  keywords as "live links" which run appropriate queries to retrieve
  all datasets containing the given names/periodicals/keywords

- buttons to edit, delete, or display entries in various formats

- search indices (keywords, authors, journal names).

- the search results are again live links that run queries to display
  matching datasets

- add references through a web form. Selecting the reference type
  will provide appropriate field names and descriptions to simplify
  data entry

- add reference from a local file

- in all cases, the addref/updateref (see edit entries above) results
  are displayed as a list of links to the appropriate entries.

- the "External databases" feature requires some more documentation,
  but it apparently allows to run queries in online databases via YAZ.

- switching databases is possible from every page via a drop-down box


Once again, please do not hesitate to ask for additional features,
improvements, or extensions if you feel they are suitable for an
easy-to-use web interface.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
[email protected]
(Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka")
http://www.mhoenicka.de


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