Attribute Architecture proposal

Hi all,

I have put together a proposal page at

    http://www.mds.rmit.edu.au/~ajk/z39.50/attribute-architecture.html

which describes what I believe is the problem with the current AA and
a possible way to overcome it. Comments welcome!

In a nutshell, I think AllTheseWords, AnyOfTheseWords, and AdjacentWords
should not be format/structure attributes in the Utility set. They are
defining *how* to combine the presence of multiple terms in the supplied
text (AND, OR, PROX). They do not define the semantic format/structure
of a string.

Put another way, they are not describing that the string contains words,
but rather what to do if there are multiple words. To make things worse,
Adjacent words *is* frequently used in examples with complete-value matching,
not as adjacent words *within* a title. There is no definition of
Adjacent Words in the spec.

I propose there should be 'word' and 'complete-value' values for
format/structure with the three boolean connectors put into a new
attribute type which describes what to do if there are multiple search
terms supplied in a single query-term.

But read the web page if you are interested.

Alan

Received on Monday, 7 July 2003 21:18:55 UTC