Re: META Tags in articles

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

Alot of this sounds great aaron!  I could impliment the key-words tonight.  We'll
hafta talk about the "description".... and as for the email thing... I really want
to keep that in backend script.  Thats stuff we don't hafta worry about for 6 - 12
months anyway - as you said.  I'll look into the additional meta tags and see what
more we can easily support.  Alot of this may require NO additional DB changes...
how nice.  Only possibility would be the "description" depending...

Also - that mail we got from that other group thanks to Roger had an idea that
stuck out in my head - what level user the document was written for.  Nice idea.
Worth more thought eventually.

Jason



On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:15:04AM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> There's some really cool META tags that htdig will see that we'd be fools
> to not take advantage of.  This may require DB changes (adding fields),
> but would be very worth it.
> 
> <META NAME="htdig-keywords" CONTENT="bind named dns configure install">
> 
> Pretty self explaintory.  The article writer creates a list of space
> delimited keywords for the article.  Articles that have one or more
> keywords in the search string get a higher "usefulness" rating.  Result:
> More accurate search results.
> 
> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="This document covers the installation
> and configuration of BIND 8.1.2 on Red Hat 6.0.  Common questions about
> SOA, MX, NS, A, and CNAME records are also covered."
> 
> This META tag is used in the search results.  For each 'hit' a summary is
> provided.  By default, the summary is the first 1000 bytes of the
> document.  Documents with a description tag will use the description as
> the summary instead.
> 
> <META NAME="htdig-email" CONTENT="pat.user@nowhere.net">
> <META NAME="htdig-email-subject" CONTENT="Reminder to update a page">
> <META NAME="htdig-notification-date" CONTENT="8/28/1995">
> 
> These three META tags work together.  Basically, each night when htdig
> indexes the site, it can check these META tags to see if an email notice
> should be sent.  The basic idea is that after a 6-12 months, most content
> will need to be updated.  We can have htdig automatically email the author
> a reminder to look at the page and update it if necessary.  (This may be
> better done via the SQL backend, but if this will do the job, why
> re-invent the wheel?)
> 
> More info on HtDig aware META tags can be found at:
> 
> http://www.htdig.org/meta.html
> 
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