Enhanced search?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

The current Enhance Search language reads:

> Effective document search requires richer description than simply 
> plain-text content. While basic default metadata such as title or 
> creator can be helpful, there is need for the possibility of richer, 
> domain-specific, metadata. A legal office may want to include case 
> information about a document, information about the plaintiffs, and so 
> forth, all of which can facilitate enhanced search. They may also want 
> to track relations among documents; for example, that between a final 
> version and its draft original.

While the requirement states it specifically, I think we need to say 
here that "richer, domain-specific, metadata" needs to be specified as 
being applied to content.

Perhaps:

"While document level metadata such as title or creator are useful, 
there is a need for metadata about specific content in the document."

I removed "domain-specific" because I don't think it adds anything to 
the statement and could be interpreted as a limitation that all metadata 
must have some defined domain. That may or may not be the case. An 
author may associate metadata with content of a document that is 
meaningful only to that author, separate and apart from any defined domain.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!