[ba-unrev-talk] searchable archives of the unrev-ii list (prototype)
Kathryn and I are continuing to work on the project announced
back in April: (01)
http://www.bootstrap.org/lists/ba-ohs-talk/0204/msg00123.html (02)
to create access structures to the unrev-ii email archives. (03)
My current little sub project is to move from our Oracle based
system to MySQL. I've done the first stages of that and figured I
ought to show off the results for comments. It may also prove a
worthwhile resource. (04)
The only problems is it is a real pain in the butt to use in its
current form. The interface is far from intuitive. (05)
However it does provide the following things: (06)
- keyword searching of message subjects and bodies
(at the moment it is mysql's TfxIDf (sort of) version of
fulltext indexing, soon it will also support boolean searches)
- retrieving messages by email address
- purple numbers on message display (07)
It does not provide instructions. Ask me if you can't figure
something out. (08)
It doesn't display threads and such like a normal hypermail or
mhonarc style archive. That's not what is was designed to do.
Eventually it will provide a mechanism for
evaluating/viewing/editing the following things: (09)
- semantic clusters
- ascribing descriptors and conceptual annotations to the messages
- evaluating messages, authors, clusters
- displaying based on evaluations (010)
Description of the subproject is here: (011)
http://www.burningchrome.com/~cdent/index.cgi?word=107 (012)
The interface itself is here: (013)
http://www.burningchrome.com/~cdent/uviz/cgi/index.cgi (014)
I'm following the release early and often dictum. It shows. (015)
I've sent this to unrev instead of ohs because it is not directly
ohs related. (016)
--
Chris Dent <cdent@burningchrome.com> http://www.burningchrome.com/~cdent/
"Mediocrities everywhere--now and to come--I absolve you all! Amen!"
-Salieri, in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (017)