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Re: plant DB - prose, searches




Aloha,

> The problem with writing things as prose is that they are difficult
> to search on. 

However, if the DB is full-text searchable, it can be done.  Main
trouble is as with text-based web searches (which are often a full-text
search on the search engine's entire indexed web space) - lots of
spurious results that aren't relevant and have to be manually culled. 
Advanced search features (booleans, etc.) help but can still be
frustrating and require more user expertise.

I am in process of redoing the static resource links on my site as a
searchable object DB (using Zope's ZCatalog objects and custom
classes), including canned queries and keyword and full-text searches. 
This should give some indication of how object based DBs handle search
issues.


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John Schinnerer, MA
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Cultural & Ecological Designing
Food - Shelter - Community
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