Re: [oc] Automatic Core Metrics and Documentation

[John Dalton <john.dalton@bigfoot.com>]

Here's an idea.

I wonder if it would be possible to come up
with some sort of standard for metadata
about cores (ideally just use an existing
standard such as the Dublin Core)?

That way a search engine, such as OpenCollector,
could allow all 'free/open hardware' sites to
be accessed using a single interface.
For example, I could put something like
'title:fft AND license:GPL' into OpenCollector
and it would search the metadata for all sites
it knows about and return a list of all projects
with 'fft' in the title and licensed under the GPL.

It's not much different to the existing
OpenCollector database, but it allows searches
to be done on specific fields, and shifts the
emphasis away from manually updating a centralised
database to each site maintaining its own metadata.

Regards
John


PS: I've now got my own web server Graham, so
hopefully I can do some interesting experiments
with search engines.
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