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Treatment (Was Re: Debian Doc Project and LDP)
Adam,
You've done a nice job with the metadata docs!
Here's a piece that might fit somewhere.
When informational items are classified by
_treatment_, searchers can quickly locate
desired information. Treatment would be an
element explaining the type of coverage
that the material provides, picked from a
list.
Such as: Manpage, Howto, Guide, Newsgroup,
RFC, FAQ, Tip, Intro, Survey, Package, RPM,
Periodical, Thesis, Catalog, Mailinglist,
Book, Techreport, Algorithm, Article, Tutorial,
Patent, Videotape, Handbook, Glossary, Event...
This is especially helpful when there's
a great deal of information to sort through.
Example: Jenny User searches for info on TCP/IP.
The LDP search yields 210 hits. Treatment could
narrow down the field of info:
If they want to know what the initials stand for,
there's the [Glossary] treatment. Example: Jargon File,
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/TCPIP.html.
If they want to solve a congestion issue with
TCP/IP, then a [Package] treatment might be helpful. E.g.,
"A TCP Vegas Implementation for Linux"
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/cardwell/linux-vegas/
They might be having a technical problem and want
to discuss it with others. Possibly a [Newsgroup] treatment
is what they're looking for, such as:
news:comp.protocols.tcp-ip or
news:comp.os.linux.networking
An [FAQ] treatment might be the best information source:
http://www.itprc.com/tcpipfaq/default.htm
Thesis work posted to the WWW or available on FTP is
sometimes useful; perhaps Ansari's [Thesis] on Adapting TCP/IP to ATM,
http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/projects/tcpip_atm/thesis.ps
The Networking overview [Howto] might contain everything
they need to know:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html
and so on ...
The "core" information of the LDP (or the DDP) could be
surveyed and classified for "treatment" without
expending too much effort. For instance, the HOWTO's
might all be processed (tagged?) from a script.
Incorporating (classifying, indexing) material outside
the scope of the LDP is a _big_ undertaking. ;^)
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