Facet all the things!

[Doug Burke]

I am currently trying to provide some canned views of the data, since I believe (with no evidence) that this is better for the general reader than just giving them a faceted browser and all the data. Saying that, there are obviously times when some level of faceting would be interesting (e.g. breaking down some of the views by the proposal date, or some other grouping), as well as a general "facet all the things" approach.

Is there any other generic javascript facet viewer than exhibit version 3? I don't want to go the whole hog of using backpack for server-side browsing.

[Doug Burke]

I have a version using the client-side exhibit version 3, based on the timeline view (no skymap or table view), which is accessible via the "Explore" page: see http://chandraobs-devel.herokuapp.com/search/timeline.html