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3.4 Cataloging and Searching

One disadvantage of the WWW in its present form is the lack of cataloguing information. In the absence of such information, it can be an adventure to find a particular datum. At present, the C&H SPDS system is sufficiently small that this lack is not a problem, but it may become important as the number of nodes increases. The Solar Discipline SPDS is implementing a keyword search to address this problem on their system and we will evaluate their results for C&H purposes. We also expect solutions to become available from the WWW, since the WWW is evolving rapidly, and this lack is an issue that affects its entire user community.


Link to Caltech SPDS page.

Thu Mar 7 12:19:33 PST 1996