InfoVeg

contributed by Lisa Giencke & Stephen Seiberling
Comments by Bob Peet followed by RKP:

This could be related to the bug 2656 (http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2656) since geographic area is considered in query. In a concept-based search, we try to answer the question "Is a certain taxon or a group of taxa (family) somehow conceptually associated with a certain geographic area?", which is not as straightforward as a name-based search. The following data components will all be involved in the query process.

Weakley's concept <--> related concepts <--> data sources <--> names <--> geographic area

If a user enters a name and specifies a county, what should the query return? what does the user want the query to return? Here is a scenario:

1. Search in Weakley's concepts by the name and find some matches, then go the step 3, otherwise go to step 2

2. Search in related concepts by the name and find some matches from which get related weakley concepts (???), then go to step 3, otherwise return with no records

3. For each matched weakley's concept, search against all the data sources by both geographic area and related concepts following the concept statrdards of the data sources. Once a match found, add the related concept, data source and weakley concept to the result list for return

4. finally, return the list generated in step 3

I am not sure if this make sense. The step 2 seems not quite clear and possibly introduces much confusion for users. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or another scenario.

Thanks,

Xianhua

I am now convinced this bug is very poorly circumscribed and should be closed until such time as someone thinks through some more specific suggestions

closed

Original Bugzilla ID was 2606