On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mike Taylor wrote:
>> Say I have the string:
>> "XML in a Nutshell"
>> and I have a system that knows XML --> Extensible Markup Language
>> If a user searches for "Markup Language" then I should return a hit?
>
> Yuck! This seems like just the find of feature that drives me crazy.
> I would hate to use a server that did this kind of thing without being
> explicitly asked to.
Right. I agree.
See also Eliot's comments re DC indexes vs DC schema.
>>> Does this generalise? i.e. would a modifier for equivalents work
>>> here for both cases
>> Looks good to me. cql.equivalent ?
> I think that's _one_ of the things you'd want. But it's very much in
> the same line to want to be able to search for "dinosaur" and find
> records that contains "tyrannosaurus".
> fruitbat.equivalent
> fruitbat.broader
> fruitbat.narrower
> and maybe others, such as fruitbat.related.
> BTW., I am not claiming that "fruitbat" is necessarily the _very_ best
> of all possible names for this putative new set.
I think you're being overly modest here, when what you actually should be
saying is:
I am claiming that zthes is actually the right place for this new stuff as
it already deals with thesauri.
Right?
Rob
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