From jancw@wrightinformation.com Fri Jun 11 10:51:29 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA22900 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:51:28 -0700 Received: from smtp4.mindspring.com (smtp4.mindspring.com [207.69.200.64]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.06) with ESMTP id KAA03646 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:51:28 -0700 Received: from nizhoni (user-2ini84j.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.32.147]) by smtp4.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA06286 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:51:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990611104406.00987d20@pop.mindspring.com> X-Sender: jancw@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:44:34 -0700 To: index-nw@u.washington.edu From: "Jan C. Wright" Subject: Re: web indexing In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Not if you make them interactive - have them click and take the user to the correct section in the index. At 10:36 AM 6/11/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > >I'm facing a quandry on my web index of a photo library. New photos are >continually being added and the index is growing quite long (14 pages so far). >My customer does not want a huge amount of time spent on this, but they do want >a useful product. In my opinion, part of my problem is the cross references. I >have all of the facilities listed under "facilities" and "research facilities" >which are adding a lot of text and making sure things get double posted is >taking up time. > >So, I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to standardize to one term for >each >big category (that is, just use "facility") and use a "see" reference for other >main terms (i.e., research facilities. See facilities). This seems like it >would >reduce the possibility of missing a double post and speed up the process. This >means for most photos, I would still have a variety of terms. For examle, one >image is indexed under > >plants: potatoes >potatoes >agricultural research: enzyme production >enzymes > >However, it does mean that instead of posting it under farming, I would simply >make an entry saying: > >farming. See agricultural research > >THE QUESTION, though, is does this really serve my reader? Would you be >frustrated if you encountered a lot of "see" references on a web site? > >Thanks, >Kristin =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Wright Information Indexing Services http://www.wrightinformation.com Jancw@wrightinformation.com =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= .