Design front end concept

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First front end concept is in https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1O-9VUcUExZBgGf5d-jAVlV0AsaMQdjK6ovooAVONh2k/edit. After evaluating desired functions, consider additional options as appropriate.

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The first display version David did is fairly compelling for the success case. The system immediately shows all matches upon selecting something from the auto-complete drop-down, or hitting return; and presents all the interesting fields (that we have so far). The format is tabular, which is not as slick as we had originally imagined, but may be a good compromise to start with. With the planned addition of expansion searching, it would enable similar prefixes to be viewed at the same time. The tabular presentation has the advantage of easy vertical comparison of rows/columns.

Some improvement ideas

We've started to remove columns from display for which we have no useful information.

The meta-information about each prefix repository could be shown as a roll-over tip for that cell, which would keep the presentation clean but allow access to the meta-info.

If nothing has been entered yet (so that 'all' prefixes are shown), the top of the page could show summary statistics, and some of the overall environment synopses :
*** Prefix Environment

• known preferred prefix collisions
• known prefix collisions (including alternates)
• prefix issue resolution (clashes, ambiguity, redundancy, metadata errors)

If you wanted a quick way to search on other fields (essentially a faceted search), we could put search fields above each column; any field with search criteria is added to the search filter that's applied. This also gives you reverse lookup from URL (or any context) to your prefix. (How cool is that?)

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Hey, he just implemented the filtering capability. yes!