Hi all

 

A Friday afternoon question – I was sitting in a workshop yesterday and was prompted to think about collections search.

 

I was wondering if any of you have any good examples of where the results include rich, contextual information rather than just lists of objects?

 

I’m not thinking of things like generous interfaces, but perhaps more like Google’s One Box style additions (if that’s what they’re still called) where context is detected in a search string and related textual, media, event and other information is used to supplement the actual results.

 

I do recall searching an art collection once (I think it could have been Tate’s) and if I happened to type an artist’s name it would prepend the results with a short biography, which is a nice if simple example.

 

Any other examples spring to mind?

 

Cheers, James

 

 

James Morley

Data Developer

 

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