[ba-ohs-talk] about a search engine on top of email archives

I sent the message inquiring about the feasibility about the search engine to the webdev list (the volunteers working on the Bootstrap site).

Dorai Thodla who is on the web-dev group said the following and I got his ok to post it to this list.

YOu can build a search engine on top of email archives.

That was one of the data types we were looking

> at supporting for the first version of I-files. (Intermediate

> files, part of the Hyperscope project)

> A message archive consists of messages that are semi-structured. The

> header has a predictable structure and the detail needs to be indexed

> using KWIC

> (key word in context). Both of them are well known methods.

> Google already does that a bit with discussion boards. With something

> like hyperscope we can go one step further. We can set up semantic

> relationship

> between threads, topics and follow on topics and build a more useful

> result

> set.

> MLF: Now if we only had a Hyperscope.....(hum to the tune of “If I only had a brain” J )

Mei Lin Fung