Dear Thunderstone,
This is the third time I have had to send this E-Mail message.
I'm interested in evaluating Texis/Webinator to determine if your
products can index the U.S. Department of Education's website and
display this index the format that we need. I have been told via a
conversation with Bart Richards that are requirements are easy. Mr.
Richards was nice enough to do a index of our site ( http://www.ed.gov
) and he placed this index at:
http://index.thunderstone.com/cgi-bin/w ... www.ed.gov
I have looked at the results and they are very impressive, but as I
was discussing with Mr. Richards one of our major goals is to make it
easier and faster to locate information on the site. We want to
create categories and subcategorizes at least three levels deep to
make this possible. For example, a category might be students and a
sub-category of this might be educational needs. The exact number of
categories has yet to be determined. Files placed into a directory
should be able to be searched ignoring all others. To date you can
see the categories that have been decided upon at:
http://inet.ed.gov/~mbrown/topics.html
There are a number of ways we wish to assign a group of URL's to a
category:
1. By MetaData, by inserting the name of the category into
the beginning of a HTML document that is to be associated with.
2. By file structure. For example: if all the files residing in the
directory http://www.ed.gov/pubs are publications we would like the
tool to place them in the main directory of publications. In addition
publications that can be identified as falling into a sub-category
should be placed there as well. Lets say we have a group of html
files that make up a publication called the student's guide to
financial aid. This document should be placed in the publications
directory as well as the student sub-directory below it and possibly
other locations as needed.
3. By the date. We would like to have a document management system
in place to accomplish a number of needs. First, the Ed site is very
large and there are many people that may desire to add to, or modify a
file. We would like a integrity engine to keep track of when a
document was last modified and by whom. In addition to this we would
like only for on person to be able to modify a document at time. Most
of the Ed documents already have a date and a author at the bottom of
each page. So this should provide a starting point. We would like to
have a date search field. Documents in categories should appear in
order of date.
In the pursuit of these goals I would like to do a test using just the
categories falling under A. I would like to do this work myself , but
I have never used the html/script language that TEXIS/Webinater uses.
I currently have the categories and subcategorizes, have some sample
URL's to be placed into these categories. My question is what do I do
now? I want to use the following categories and sub-categories:
A
Absenteeism
Academic Excellence
Accreditation
Achievement, Student:
-Geography
-History
-Math
-Reading
-Science
-Writing
Adult Education and Literacy:
-Budget
-Fact Sheets
-Federal Funding
-Journals
-Legislation
-Newsletters
-Organizations
-Press Releases
-Education and Literacy
Arts Education
Associations/Organizations
Athletics
I have a list of the URL's that I would like to assign to these
categories. I also know the directories that I would like to
assign to a individual category. For the purpose of this test
MetaData fields will not be used because I don't want to tag files
until I'm sure that the categories are in stone.
Thank You, very much,
Marc B. Brown
Systems Analyst
Decision Systems Technologies Inc.
mbrown@dsti.com
Voice:301-441-3377 Ext.3349
Fax:301-441-4571
http://www.dsti.com
http://www.ed.gov