This sounds reasonable to me. Document title is pretty obvious. The
document maintainer is often represented by <LINK REV=made
HREF=mailto:somebody> tags (the word "made" suggests "author" but the
use suggests "maintainer"... that probably should be fixed. IAFA/IIIR
distinguishes the two as "author" and "admin".)
Use of META tags like this is already happening; for instance, the
site-index script <http://www.ai.mit.edu/tools/site-index.html> or my
variant of it <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/item_index/intro.html>. It
seems reasonable.
>4) Finally, on searching the web space, have there been any advances in this
>recently? People here seem to be against the ALIWEB style approach to indexing
>.
>What other methods are people looking at?
What you describe above (making things like keywords and descriptions
of documents available) sounds very much like ALIWEB. Can you be more
specific about what they seem to be against? Use of document-specific
data like keywords? Expectation of sites to locally construct an
index which is polled? Lack of hierarchy? Lack of support for
multiple keyword searches?
I've talked to people who dislike using it, and the reasons usually
boil down to "The link to the UK is slow." :-)
- Marc
-- <A HREF="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/mvanheyn.html">Marc VanHeyningen</A>