Re: Metadata or content - and some OCS feedback

["james@xmlTree.com" <james@xxxxxxx.xxxx]

Carmen

> Well, a true portal might have thousands or tens of thousands of
> channels.  When (not if :-) we get to this point things will get
> unwieldly. We'll need a meta-OCSF which contains a list of
> OCSF files. Imagine any significant fraction of the sites listed
> in Yahoo in a single file. Ugly, eh?

Yeah, ugly.  This is where categorisation comes into play.  I thought about this some time
ago when deciding how to open the contents of xmlTree on display.  I reckoned that it was
sensible to provide a channel listing by category, limiting the number of channels in any
one OCS-like file to around 20-100.  At least all of the channels are on a similar topic.

An obvious point : including categorisation at the OCS level would imply that it applied
to the all of the channels in the list, and would preclude us from compiling lists based
on something other than categorisation, like keywords.  So if we include categorisation in
the meta data, it should only be at the individual channel level.

Best regards,
James Carlyle

james@xmltree.com
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