WHo'd have thought a guy from the Midlands could speak perfectly good
R-neck??? woo
is this free text approach something we'd like to actively discourage,
or should we promote a scheme
(SCHEME= Nominal?) that signifies that the value of the attribute is a
geographic place name (and is there a freely-available list of place
names that we can recommend?
stu
On Tuesday, September 30, 1997 9:48 AM, Paul Miller
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> Stu Weibel wrote:
>
> > Mary's Coverage workgroup paper adopts a strongly cartesian or
> > foot-print view of coverage.
> >
> > I can also imagine it being used in an unqualified free-text mode...
> > coverage = Columbus, Ohio
>
> Indeed. The Coverage WP does allow the possibility for inclusion of
free
> text strings of this type, but would probably be happier with such
> strings where they are drawn from a controlled thesaurus such as the
> Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), the UK's Ordnance Survey
1:50,000/
> 1:10,000 gazetteer, etc.
>
> While such terms drawn from a controlled thesaurus are undeniably more
> USABLE from a resource discovery point of view, the problem will be in
> encouraging people to USE them, rather than just type the name in
> themselves, 'cos it's 'obvious' [your red-neck KNOWS he means
Columbus,
> Ohio, whereas I, searching the world from York, need not necessarily
> know which Columbus he means...!].
>
> > very loose semantics, indeed. Useful? Probably less so than a more
> > strongly-typed version. Eric mentioned to me that some substantial
> > percentage (40%?) of all web searches are for local resources.
> > <red-neck-accent>Don't need no bounding box to find a list of all
the
> > Holiday Inns in Columbus.</red-neck-accent>
>
> Proposal for HTML 5... <red-neck-accent> as an official addition to
the
> HTML DTD...? ;-)
>
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>
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