[Zope-CMF] Dublin Core

[Ricardo Newbery]

At 8:36 pm -0400 6/6/01, Tres Seaver wrote:
>OK, I can see adding a field to the interface, and a simple implementation
>to the common base class used by the content objects in CMFDefault.  Would
>a "multi-valued" field (like Subject or Contributors) fit your needs better
>than a "text" field (like Description)?
>
>To clarify the question:  do you intend to perform searches against the
>Coverage field?  If so, we/you would need to do one of two things:
>
>  - Store the value as a single string, and create a TextIndex in the catalog
>    against it;  this would allow for typical "full-text-style searches on
>    words in the field.
>
>  - Define some trickier schema, and catalog that;  this makes harder searches
>    possible, at the cost of considerably more coding on your part.  You would
>    likely prefer a multi-valued field here, and build one or more 
>KeywordIndexes
>    against methods which parsed out the values.
>


Hmm... I'm afraid I don't understand the advantages/disadvantages of 
each choice.

Yes, I expect to do searches.  I haven't gotten to the point in my 
Zope/CMF zen to grok the catalog stuff.  That's next on my list.

I suspect that a multi-valued field using a flat list of county, 
regional, and state names will do for now.  Maybe eventually I might 
want to translate into more hierarchical list of geographic names.

Ric