this might be a candidate for the gwt-incubator ScrollTable which supports sorting on
arbitrary columns in the table:
http://google-web-toolkit-incubator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demo/ScrollTable/index.html

note: gref currently uses widgets from mvzlib.jar for the table widget.

Once different sorting options are available, I'd like to make a link to the GReF
site directly so users can browse the notes and link back directly to Arctos if they
find a specimen of interest.

I'm also wondering what it would take to expand the Search interface to allow users
to search by GReF'd references (e.g., give me all notebook sections where higher
geography is blah). Eventually, I can envision this taking the place of the BSCIT
notebook search site?

linking back to arctos should be straight forward. also, what other concepts would
you like the search interface to handle? higher geography and what else?

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I've created a new issue for querying enhancements (e.g., higher geography)

the issue mentioned directly above in comment 6 is issue #50.