Entity Lookups Results layout & content
- A label (the Fedora object label or the standard name - more details below)
- All Variant names
- Project (entity collection from which the entity is drawn; this would be identifiable one ancestor up, as the project specific entity collections would likely have entity type specific subcollections)
- For person entities:
- DOB-DOD
- Profession, Nationality
- For organization entities:
- Date of existence
- Type (e.g.university, college, etc.), Level (e.g. national, international)
- For places:
- ideally a map if not
- next administrative division, country
- lat long
- first 20 returned results for each entity lookup source
- have all the entity lookup sources collapsed by default
- automatically expand sources with hits when the user is filling in the search term
- have CWRC at the top of the sources
- allow users to have multiple sources expanded at the same time
- include scrolling in each individual list
Decision: leave resource refinement for later
The Info box, or the disambiguation box, would allow users to select the right entity when multiple entities have the same label.
Decision: Use a bootstrap 'popover' on top of the modal - less customizable in terms of layout and style.
Also, other sources (besides CWRC, and notably VIAF) don't return all the disambiguation information, at least not in their initial search results.
Decision: Make a separate call to VIAF each time someone moused over the results and paused on one (pause necessary to avoid making http calls willy nilly as the user moused around.