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Several design requirements must be taken into consideration with this prototype.
Overview & Detail Views:
With large datasets, it becomes very easy to lose sight of the overall
picture - we only see a few trees in the forest instead of seeing where
we are located within that forest. Therefore the system prototpye
must allow a user to be able to examine details of URLs without losing
sight of the URL's position within the entire collection. This means
that an overview of the entire collection should be present at all times
no matter how deeply we delve into the collection.
Flexible Bookmark Organization:
Organization of bookmarks within a collection should not be limited
to manual organization by the user and/or one or two sorting methods.
We want to provide a potential user with several organization options that
are easy to use and intuit. Sorting not only alphabetically, but
by domain and by person allows a user to gain a different perspective of
the collection. Other sorting methods, such as sorting by popularity
or frequency of access, or any number of other metrics, may also prove
useful.
Support for Searching & Browsing:
With a group collection, providing a comprehensive searching functionality
is a must. Providing a highly interactive interface for navigating
the bookmarks collection will allow users to more easily discover similarities
or differences between their own collection and that of others. Also,
we hypothesize that a constrained search engine that searches only
the group space for relevant document links will return a higher percentage
of trusted and useful resources without inundating the user with thousands
of search results.