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<li><em>To</em>: David Lawyer &lt;<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>&gt;, Paul Jones &lt;<A HREF="mailto:pjones@metalab.unc.edu">pjones@metalab.unc.edu</A>&gt;, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A></li>
<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Questions about future</li>
<li><em>From</em>: &quot;Greg Ferguson&quot; &lt;<A HREF="mailto:gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com">gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com</A>&gt;</li>
<li><em>Date</em>: Tue, 2 May 2000 09:40:20 -0400</li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: David Lawyer &lt;dave@lafn.org&gt; &quot;Re: Questions about future&quot; (May 1, 10:20pm)</li>
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On May 1, 10:20pm, David Lawyer wrote:
&gt; Subject: Re: Questions about future
&gt; On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:48:53PM -0400, Paul Jones wrote:
&gt; &gt; i have a couple of pet projects that i think would help out the LDP
and
&gt; &gt; the people and companies that use it.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; first i'd put someone on adding decent metadata (my mantra by now) on
all
&gt; &gt; the entries in the LDP. of course i'd like it based on the OMF (open
&gt; &gt; source metadata framework) developed here and with Kendall ;-&gt;
&gt; &gt; <A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/omf/">http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/omf/</A>
&gt; &gt; this would let folks search on more than just content and also allow
other
&gt; &gt; ways of looking for appropriate documents. it would also allow smaller
&gt; &gt; sites to have local searches on copies of the metadata then to
retrieve
&gt; &gt; the document from a nearby mirror or from www.linuxdoc.org
&gt; &gt; so usability enhancement via metadata with an eye on wide distribution
and
&gt; &gt; local independent uses.
&gt;
&gt; I don't want to burden LDP authors (or even worse, non-authors) with
&gt; creating metadata files. I think that if we need such files, they
&gt; could be automatically extracted from the source by copying the
&gt; abstract, date, author, etc. Also, I routinely search all of the text
&gt; of all of the HOWTOs using grep on a 486 and it goes fairly fast. I'm
&gt; busy reading early hits while waiting for it to finish. Searching all
&gt; the text is more through than searching metadata, but searching just
&gt; the metadata would obviously be faster.
&gt;
&gt; But I vote for metadata provided it can be extracted with a script
&gt; from existing documents.
...and I did this, and submitted over 140+ metadata entries, but
to my knowledge, nothing ever came out of it. So I stopped sending
entries and updates.
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<li><strong><a name="02111" href="msg02111.html">Re: Questions about future</a></strong>
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<li><strong><a name="02112" href="msg02112.html">Re: Questions about future</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> Paul Jones &lt;pjones@metalab.unc.edu&gt;</li></ul></li>
<li><strong><a name="02124" href="msg02124.html">Re: Questions about future</a></strong>
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