[Wasabi] Kicking of the Metadata spec - brainstorm

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 07:55:44 PST 2007


2007/2/21, Fabrice Colin <fabrice.colin at gmail.com>:
>
> On 2/21/07, Jos van den Oever <jvdoever at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/2/20, Joe Shaw <joeshaw at novell.com>:
> > > Heh.  Fair enough.  Should we keep it simply to the search-side of
> > > things, then?
> >
> > The intention is to define a way to define metadata fields. This is
> > required for searching and useful for metadata read/write too. So lets
> > come up with the properties we allow metadata fields to have. I think
> > what we have so far is what is required for searching too. So this
> > will not be about an API for reading and writing.
> >

Speaking of searching metadata, would it be useful to also define
> which metadata fields are to be treated as boolean filters and which allow
> probabilistic search ?


Will this not be implicit in most cases? Do you have an example?

Cheers,
Mikkel
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