Re: [Bug-gne]What about directory/based

[Tom Chance]

I think the backend should be entirely un-classified.
It should merely be a giant repository of information
with some sort of fields in the data that will allow
it to be classified later, like a "topic" field. This
would allow us to have multiple front ends should we
need them, and let us change the main frontend and
organisational system around a lot without having to
spend hours going through all of the articles. We
don't want to get ourselves stuck in a system that
could soon become redundant.

As a frontend though, the Yahoo! idea would be good,
especially if you could do things like search only in
specific categories etc. We'd need a whole team of
people classifying though, it would be a huge job.

Tom Chance



--- Dan Geiser <address@hidden> wrote: >
Wouldn't this fall under the idea of a
> classification system which Mike 
> Warren was discussing earlier?  I think you should
> be able to have many 
> types of classification systems...
> 
> 
> >From: Hector Facundo Arena
> <address@hidden>
> >Reply-To: address@hidden
> >To: <address@hidden>
> >Subject: [Bug-gne]What about directory/based
> >Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 11:00:52 -0300 (ART)
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >A friend of mine gave me an Idea for the back-end
> of the system. And I
> >want to tell it to you.
> >
> >What about a directory based encyclopedia? The
> system would be just like
> >Yahoo! with Categories and Subcategories of
> articles. A search tool to
> >search all the information on the encyclopedia
> would be nice too.
> >The data would not be stored on a central server,
> and the system would be
> >very much easier to administrate.
> >
> >
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> >home: hfa.linuxpersonal.com
> >
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