Re: Attaching Meta-Data

[Julian Satchell <j satchell eris qinetiq com>]

If it is any help, the last version of my document indexer had some
initial support for meta-data. 

There are a number of subtle design issues for efficient retrieval on
meta-data oriented searches; in a RDBMS design you tend to end up with
many-way joins.

Julian

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 15:37 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 20:33 +0100, Srikant Jakilinki wrote:
> > Guys, any cool ideas and scenarios that you have regarding "attaching
> > metadata"? I think we should probably focus on this aspect a bit more
> > than we have done till now. 
> 
> I think the main thing at this point is that we're losing all kinds of
> metadata when we interact with others.  When you save an email
> attachment you lose all contextual information there.  Who sent it, when
> did they send it, who else did they send it to, what other attachments
> were sent, what message/thread was it from, etc.  There are similar
> issues with instant messaging.  URLs and files are passed around there,
> but there isn't any kind of link established, and so there's no useful
> way to re-associate it with what I'm really looking for.
> 
> Identifying those situations and then addressing them (probably
> instrumenting the apps somehow) is going to be one of the most
> challenging tasks of the project, IMO, but also one of the most
> rewarding.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
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