From: Jeff K. <jt...@ya...> - 2006-01-31 19:05:09
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Martin Aspeli wrote: > Keywords as a mechanism (DC Subject field) is not really that useful in > Plone. The "related" portlet can list things with the same keyword, but > in general, it's hard to convince people to add proper keywords to their > content, and harder still to make them re-use existing keywords, and the > more noise there is, the less useful keywords are. Descriptions are sometimes hard to motivate, too. When I tried the 'libots' text auto-summarizer, it became clear (to me) that Plone would benefit from something of similar capability to offer 'proposed summary' and 'proposed keywords' as part of the validation step. Presuming an eventual AJAX interface to Archetypes' validation step, I think many if not most people would accept or edit a proposed summary and keywords if informed of its relative importance to their site's non-search discoverability. http://libots.sourceforge.net/ The C-based libots works quite well, but a pure python library that could be tuned using a few dictionaries, favor/match a defined keyword set, etc. would be needed before an autosummarizing, autokeywording feature would be practical. |