discuss: Stale Docs (was: My obsolete HOWTOs being sold as a book)
Subject:
Re: Stale Docs (was: My obsolete HOWTOs being sold as a book)
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
1 Mar 2001 15:56:39 -0000
Message-Id: <10103011051.ZM11218@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Mar 1, 9:49am, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
> Subject: Stale Docs (was: My obsolete HOWTOs being sold as a book)
> ...
> Imagine going to a library to find a book and having to know in advance
> whether it was a big book or a little book, whether it was hardcover or
> softcover, whether it had pictures or was all text. Those are all useful
> attributes about a book but shouldn't dictate how I go about *finding*
> the darn thing. Subject, author, title - those are the primary
> attributes. Why doesn't the LDP have navigation based on subject,
> author and title?
We're hoping the OMF search capability solves that problem (once
all docs are properly classified within their system). No sense
re-inventing the wheel:
http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/#search
In fact, at some point I'd like to see this become the primary
search for the LDP, rather than my wais-based hack.
The time and effort to catalog *all* the LDP docs within the OMF
framework would be time well spent, imo. I originally submitted
a slew of XML data records to be used in the system, but at this
point many are out of date.
r,
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