Tag Archives: cwdb

Metadata

I was talking with J tonight, in particular regarding data storage schemas. In particular freeform writing and its associated metadata.
If everything were mostly-freeform attribute text, it would be a search-friendly index-hating chaotic mess.
On the simple, gentle end of things, attribute values with spelling errors are a problem. One that can be easily mitigated with on-the-fly [...]

search

I learned that writing an intel’gent search system is hard.