Patterns for Adding Search Capabilities to Web Information Systems
Fernando Lyardet, Gustavo H. Rossi, Daniel Schwabe · 1999
We present in this paper several patterns that can be used to improve Web Information System with search capabilities. We first introduce and justify the need for adding search functionality to Web applications; next we briefly explain the context in which we discovered these patterns. Finally, Web-search patterns are presented illustrating them with examples of successful information systems in the Internet Introduction The World Wide Web has become a popular platform for developing widely accessible applications. Moreover, the development of better and cheaper communication and storage technology, together with the exponential popularity growth of the web, brought us this vast ocean of information, with a few tools to help us find what we want. Designing applications that support navigation and multimedia interfaces is a hard task, as we must provide meaningful navigation paths and we must build interfaces in order to avoid cognitive overhead. We have been mining patterns for desi...