[p2p-hackers] Paradigma Question: DHT's or Small World?

[Alexander Löser]

SIMON Gwendal RD-MAPS-ISS wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > What kind of application scenario suits to this requirements?
> > I think of a networked desktop search application. Similar to
> > Gnutella, some people publish some of its documents, most
> > don't. Some of them are annotated by meta data, probably with
> > the same vocabulary or within the same ontology, some not.
> > Users pose keyword queries, similar in a single desktop
> > search engine.  Queries either match the documents filename,
> > folder or (if any) documents meta data.
>
> Why do you want to restrict search to meta-data ? Google don't ! It must
> be possible to perform full-text search...

I assume a system where its possible to search full text.  Probably for a
first try, within the filename and directory structure only, later in the
document itself.

>
> Besides, how to define a world common ontology that could fit all future
> needs ?

However, if the document contains any valuable meta data, the system should
consider this information as well.  I think of documents classified by an
enterprise wide topic hierarchy or research docs classified within the ACM
topic hierarchy or the documents within the google/dmoz project. Or possible
doctors that exchange documents classified within a medical taxonomy.

Please correct me, if my assumptions are wrong.
Cheers Alex


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