[MKSearch-dev] Future directions

[Phil Shaw]

This post raises a couple of possibilities.

http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/index.php?p=132

Mark assumes our ultimate target is free text search. My feeling is 
to keep the focus on structured metadata because it has explicit 
meaning, and this allows us (ultimately) to make better use of the 
semantics and inferencing provided by Sesame.

The other is the idea of a personal aggregator. MKSearch works 
just as well for intranets as for the public Web, but could also index 
metadata in Open Office and PDF, possibly Microsoft Office 
documents on the local file system.

I made some notes on this here:

http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/plans/future-directions/


Another thing I have been thinking about is to create a public 
demonstration service that indexes the UK Information Asset 
Register:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/iar

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/cgi-
bin/searchIAR.pl?DB=iar

That also has a category-based browse interface,  which Adam has 
talked about in a different context.


The query/results system is designed so that results can be 
cached server side for improved performance.

I have plenty of minor 'to do' items for MKSearch, but I think one of 
these major developments may be feasible before the funding runs 
out in January. Does anyone have any strong feelings on this, or 
other ideas?

Best regards,

Phil




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MKSearch (beta)

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Free, open source metadata search engine with RDF storage and query.