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- It would certainly be useful if the WAIS "spatial indexing" work
- could be dovetailed nicely with the existing World Wide Web
- browsers taht support direct point-and-click selection on images.
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- This looks like a good time to get involved in those efforts,
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- --Ed
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- Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 08:52:39 -0400
- From: ddnebert@dsdnqvarsa.er.usgs.GOV (Douglas D. Nebert (x5691))
- Message-Id: <9305191252.AA16426@dsdnqvarsa.er.usgs.GOV>
- To: wais-talk@think.com, zip@cnidr.org
- Cc: ebouck@dsdnqvarsa.er.usgs.GOV
- Subject: Planning for the future
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- We are ready to integrate the spatial indexing and search functions into
- the WAIS code, so that rather than be an add-on it would be another command-
- line option in waisindex and would be evaluated as a word condition, preferably
- using the boolean constructs that have been added by gilbert@uibio.
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- Our choices are 1) integrate with the b5 code with extensions and no copyright
- concerns, 2) integrate with the freeWAIS code and dovetail with Z39.50 (92)
- or 3) write our own indexer and server that take cohesive portions of code
- from b5 but make it easier to follow and be more extensible.
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- What is the best path to take to make the spatial processing code portable
- so that it can be used now and also with the 1992 compliant server? The main
- programmer we have working on this is getting increasingly disenchanted with
- the code noting that it is not easily extensible -- a feature that should
- be pursued in new versions of the WAIS code. We also need someone with
- discipline to collate and 'sanitize' the code so it looks like it was written
- by one author in a highly structured way. I had expected this with freeWAIS
- but it did not happen.
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- Word is/was that the search engine will be completely rewritten to anticipate
- the 1992 Z39.50 compliance. Is this already being done? How will it be
- rewritten and how will its features be coordinated with contributing authors?
- Or will it just be rewritten to accommodate attribute searching but be left
- mostly as-is? Who is doing this?
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- What is the best investment of our effort in the next couple of months?
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- Doug Nebert
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