Search as a unified concept in DANDI

[bendichter]

brainstorming unified search:

• I would like to see the faceted search as a filter. By that I mean you could choose e.g. “only mice” and then use the search bar to refine the search via free-form text matching on top of that.

• The same approach could be used for LLMs, where we constrict the results using faceted search and then refine by LLM.

Here is a possible UX:

• We have an expandable search bar that allows you to specify filters (facets) on the dandisets
• The searchbar still exists. There is a toggle for users to toggle between "text match" and "LLM". the default is text match, but if a user switches to LLM, the search bar is passed to the LLM mechanism.

[yarikoptic]

I think it relates to

• https://github.com/dandi/dandi-archive/issues/1659

[waxlamp]

@bendichter, in the immediate future, this would involve adding a freeform text search bar to the interface at https://dandiarchive.org/search, and essentially giving as results the intersection of both searches (i.e., results common to the faceted search and also the freeform text search). Is that a reasonable way of thinking of an MVP for what you're describing?

[bendichter]

@waxlamp yes, that would be a good MVP.