[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Evert-Jan Couperus) wrote on 25.01.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > No. For a keywords-based help system it's very important that the > > keywords for each document are right. A full-text search, or a search > > based on summaries or keywords invented for some other purpose, > > doesn't work at all well. > > Very true. Besides that you will need to agree on a set of keywords to > be used by the authors. I have seen this shortcoming with a large > documentation project with a lot of professional technical writers > involved using freely chosen keywords. Now every week the CD-ROM > containing the documents is accompanied by an article explaining what > keyword to use to access a particular article. I think this is not the > way to go. I think you're wrong here. Consistent keywords are for situations where lots of things should have the same keyword. This is not what we are trying to do here; we want keywords to return just a few documents, which means lots of different keywords. MfG Kai
