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- Item 5861320 13-Oct-89 10:52
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- From: D2086 Efficient Field Svc, C Faith,PRT
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: RE- Tracking Links
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- For those who may be interested:
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- I am working on a project for MADA that is specifically for the handling of the
- enormous quantity of AppleLinks.
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- It is nearing completion so most of the features are known:
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- 1) It files links or text information into subject areas. These subjects are
- arranged hierarchically with no restrictions on the number of levels or number
- of subjects at a given level. Retrieval of links will be very similar to the
- way that Standard File gets files. Each subject can be edited at any time and
- the changes saved.
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- 2) Each link or subject can have any number of keywords associated with it and
- vice versa. These are arranged into an Index of Keywords for searching.
- Keyword retrieval is indexed and very fast.
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- 3) One can search the entire set of Links for specific words or letters. This
- can be done with case matching or whole word specification. This works
- reasonably fast. A search for each occurence of "InsideOut" for example,in a
- 500K set of data will take less than 10 seconds for most disk drives and
- computers.
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- 4) It will also have Lempel-Zev compression (Thanks to Ed Skwarecki, Rob
- Chandok and Carnegie Mellon University). If compression is used searching will
- be slower but I am not yet sure by how much.
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- 5) It will automate the assembly of links in some way. I have not completed
- this part and am open to suggestions as to how this should be done. I
- currently have it extract all the links from a given folder and then placing
- them in a list in order of Link Date. Each item in the list will be chosen and
- inserted into the hierarchy in some way I have not yet fully determined. I
- could use ideas for this.
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- 6) One will be able to relate subjects together so that one can sort of have
- hyper-references to other pieces of the database. For example a discussion of
- InsideOut might be related to a discussion of MacApp B9 bugs in some way. I
- have not finished the user interface part of this and could use suggestions as
- to how to best present the related subjects (Link Threads) for selection.
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- 7) The database will be batch-updateable and the plan is to have regular
- (monthly, bimonthly?) releases of pre-Keyworded and related MacApp links.
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- In conclusion: I would appreciate suggestions as to the best way to make
- assembling the links easier. AppleLink does not help much with this as there
- is no way to tell which links are in response to which others except by reading
- them.
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- Any other suggestions for the user interface would be welcome, just don't count
- on me changing anything I have finished unless the suggestions are really good.
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- Curtis Faith
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