On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Tony Crockford wrote:
> Out of curiosity, are you creating all these documents yourself?
No, I don't actually create any of them. :-) We have a department
who receives the docs, typically as Word files, from various faculty.
They then turn them into HTML and "install" them on the server, which
involves using a web app to specify the info for the Oracle db.
Some of the info that goes into the db (e.g. title) can be obtained
from the document itself (I'm thinking the categories could work the
same way). Other info (e.g. the categories, currently) are collected
via a form in the installer app. At this point, I'm considering having
the web app add the appropriate "keywords" META tags to the documents,
based on the categories which the user specifies in the HTML form.
If the document already contained a meta keywords tag, then that info
could be used to pre-specify the categories in the web form.
If the person creating the HTML never had to fiddle with adding these
meta tags, then I could make them as long and meaningless as I needed
to, and then have a mapping between the shorter "ir-cg-cr-cb" name and
the htdig version, "1xyzir-2xyzcg-3xyzcr-4xyzcb". ;-)
> Could you not create a sub directory structure on the web server and use
> that to help restrict your searches to category?
One of the features of this site is that documents may be placed in
multiple categories. That way, a user who's browsing the site could
find a document on "Alfalfa Hay Budgets" by navigating through either:
Crops & Grains -> Crops -> Crop Budgets
or:
Farm Business Management & Marketing -> Budgets -> Crops
Also, the documents themselves are arranged on disk according to other
criteria, such as the document type (for some document types) or the
department where it was written. In other words, they're arranged for
the convenience of the librarian.
---
Patrick Robinson
AHNR Info Technology, Virginia Tech
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