François Dongier wrote:
Right, I was surprised to see Dave Winer suggesting just a pointer to
the searcher's blog URI. It certainly would seem more efficient to
have the query include a pointer to a *rich*, structured,
user-editable user-profile. This structure would help the search
engine know where to find the information it needs to personalize the
search result and make it more relevant to the search context. This
(context specification) is where the "user-editable" bit comes in. And
I think it goes beyond foaf:interests: what's needed is more something
like a "current" interest-profile.
Correct!
Excerpt from my comments to Dave:
".if the search engine was able to discern my Identity (or prompt me for
a pointer my profile or blog home page), I should then be able to use
information gleaned from my profile (however obtained) to do the following:
1. Optimize the search path
2. Provide search results that enable be to disambiguate further (if
need be) using Entity Type and/or Entity Properties.."
As per my Tweet: I prefer to call this "context driven search" :-)
Kingsley
Regards,
François
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Danny Ayers <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dave Winer has posted an idea [1] that I think would make a neat
little demo in the crossover area between LOD and traditional
keyword/linkrank search. His suggestion is for a search engine to
offer a preference to allow the searcher to enter their blog URI
alongside the usual text search, allowing the engine to provide more
focused results. (Curiously he elides the part about what mechanisms
are used behind the scenes :-)
I'm pretty sure someone around here will have most if not all of the
necessary pieces already in place (SearchMonkey, Sindice...), but I
don't recall seeing a really minimal UI, like:
Search Terms : [ ]
Home Page or WebID : [ ]
Come to think of it, if anyone has a dedicated RDF-backed RSS/Atom
aggregator, I'd rather like a blog search tool like this. SPARQL regex
would probably be adequate for the text search part, with maybe
derived foaf:primaryTopics from documents being lined up with
foaf:interests pulled via the WebID.
Cheers,
Danny.
[1] http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/07/26/twowaySearch.html
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