Talk:Semantic Forms
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Semantic Forms revisited
I posted the following message to the crisiswiki Google forum for discussion on March 22, 2011: --jwalling
RE: Semantic Forms
Yaron Koren suggested that we revisit Semantic Forms since there have been improvements that allow for drop-down Sub-types on forms. EXAMPLE:
- http://discoursedb.org/w/index.php?title=The_New_York_Times&action=formedit
- (Please don't save changes, as this is a live site.)
We have two potential kinds of form Types/Sub-Types:
1. Some Form Types/Sub-types could be (or are) one-to-many, hierarchical, e.g. Country/StateProvince or StateProvince/City (Counties, parishes and districts are being treated like cities, yuck.)
2. Some Form Types/Sub-types are many-to-many, e.g. Emergency Types/Sub-types, and do not lend them to a drop-down sub-types widget.
Drop-downs could work for the first kind, the one-to-many Types/Sub-types.
(Note: We also have Regions which are mulitples of Country or StateProvince or City. Currently we have a Regions Form but it has been unused as we have been giving regions ad hoc treatments, eg, http://www.crisiswiki.org/Caribbean which has a tree structure with multiple branches - too complex for forms?)
If anyone wants to comment off the forum, I posted this message here:
- Hi - it's true that the geographical stuff is much more of a direct one-to-many relationship, but unfortunately that's much trickier (or maybe even impossible, currently), because the geographical stuff is free-text, and uses autocompletion. But for stuff like "resource sub-type" in the "Resource" form (see here, for instance), isn't there at least some stuff that's one-to-many? The news-related items look like that, if nothing else... maybe there's more, too. Yaron Koren 15:32, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
