Combined archive and metainfo browser
The generic archive browser does not allow to search/filter and most data is not presented very scientifically. Both the old and the new metainfo browser have weaknesses. The should not be a big difference between metainfo browsing and archive browsing, because the metainfo is technically also just an archive. We need a browser that allows us to navigate archvies and metainfo seemingly (without having to maintain multiple browsers).
It uses the core mechanism of apple's/next's lane-based file browser: You start in the first lane (left to right) and whatever you select here get displayed in the next lane.
- This allows to navigate arbitrary relationships (sub-sections, quantity values, metainfo, references, parent sections, etc.).
- Within a lane there could be a place to put section/quantity specific visualizations
- visualizations we have in the encyclopedia anyways, e.g. structue viewer
- We should also think how to present physics data in general, e.g. matrices with units.
- This could also be a place to have something similar to the "vicinity" graph in the old metainfo browser, when showing a metainfo definition
- Each lane could be used to filter/search its content (on top of a general search the whole archive function)