[Zope-PTK] DublinCore revisited

Michael Bernstein webmaven@lvcm.com
Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:06:20 -0700


"Dan L. Pierson" wrote:
> 
> Michael Bernstein writes:
>  > Tres Seaver wrote:
>  > > Yep -- this makes stuff like ZTopics really work well, for instance.
>  > > Full-text searching is great, especially for "serendiptious" finds,
>  > > but it doesn't really handle the "logical classification" notion very
>  > > well.
>  >
>  > I wonder, could an advanced implementation handle asigning
>  > multiple keywords to the Subject simply by selecting an
>  > appropriate location within a heirarchy? I've found that
>  > people are better at sticking things in the appropriate
>  > category/sub-category than at selecting appropriate
>  > keywords. Selecting more than one location could result in
>  > the appropriate keyword lists being ANDed together with
>  > duplicates removed.
> 
> First, I think you really mean "ORed" above.  Anding would reduce many
> keywords sets to the empty set.

You are, of course, correct. Somehow I got the OR operation
mixed up in my head with concatenation.

Michael Bernstein.