[Sigia-l] interposing taxonomy in search

[James Melzer]

Austin,

Is the work you describe here based on the registries framework layed
out in ISO 11179?

~ James

On 9/23/05, Austin Govella <austin.govella at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/22/05, Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au> wrote:
> >  Go to <http://filmaust.com.au/library/search.asp>, select the third
> > heading ("Search APT subject headings"), enter "kangaroo" as the search
> > term, and click "Search"...
> >
> > Not for the faint hearted!
>
> That's cool. I'm working on something similar.
>
> To support better search we've created a database that supports a
> dynamic architecture. Essentially all of our "names" like page titles,
> urls, global nav, etc. are stored separately from all of our "items"
> like content, phone numbers, files, etc.
>
> Because of the architecture, any item can have more than one name.
> I.e. if a name is a way that people map pathways to content, then one
> can find content using the page title, the url, the global nav
> taxonomy, or a search query.
>
> For searches, queries would be run against the names and the content.
> Querying our various lists of names, we can search all the ways people
> map pathways to content. This means we can query page names, text
> content, img captions, or various taxonomies.
>
> And... the really cool part: search queries are just more "names"
> which means best bets and recommended content is just another taxonomy
> the database will handle.
>
> (We haven't tested the search yet. We're still testing the database
> and application framework.)
>
> --
> Austin Govella
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> austin.govella at gmail.com
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James Melzer


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