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<h1>Re: Questions about future</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: David Lawyer <<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>>, Paul Jones <<A HREF="mailto:pjones@metalab.unc.edu">pjones@metalab.unc.edu</A>>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Questions about future</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: "Greg Ferguson" <<A HREF="mailto:gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com">gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com</A>></li>
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<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 <dave@lafn.org> "Re: Questions about future" (May 1, 10:20pm)</li>
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On May 1, 10:20pm, David Lawyer wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Questions about future
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> On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:48:53PM -0400, Paul Jones wrote:
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> > i have a couple of pet projects that i think would help out the LDP
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and
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> > the people and companies that use it.
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> >
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> > first i'd put someone on adding decent metadata (my mantra by now) on
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all
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> > the entries in the LDP. of course i'd like it based on the OMF (open
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> > source metadata framework) developed here and with Kendall ;->
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> > <A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/omf/">http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/omf/</A>
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> > this would let folks search on more than just content and also allow
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other
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> > ways of looking for appropriate documents. it would also allow smaller
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> > sites to have local searches on copies of the metadata then to
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retrieve
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> > the document from a nearby mirror or from www.linuxdoc.org
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> > so usability enhancement via metadata with an eye on wide distribution
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and
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> > local independent uses.
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> I don't want to burden LDP authors (or even worse, non-authors) with
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> creating metadata files. I think that if we need such files, they
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> could be automatically extracted from the source by copying the
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> abstract, date, author, etc. Also, I routinely search all of the text
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> of all of the HOWTOs using grep on a 486 and it goes fairly fast. I'm
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> busy reading early hits while waiting for it to finish. Searching all
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> the text is more through than searching metadata, but searching just
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> the metadata would obviously be faster.
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> But I vote for metadata provided it can be extracted with a script
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> from existing documents.
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...and I did this, and submitted over 140+ metadata entries, but
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to my knowledge, nothing ever came out of it. So I stopped sending
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entries and updates.
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--
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Greg Ferguson - s/w engr / mtlhd | gferg@sgi.com
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<li><strong><a name="02111" href="msg02111.html">Re: Questions about future</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com></li></ul></li>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Paul Jones <pjones@metalab.unc.edu></li></ul></li>
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