Infoselect 9 Preliminary Version

Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 13, 2006 at 03:03 PM

Dominick wrote: “So it is much easier for me to just type down a category each time than to dig through a picklist. I never have to think of updating a category or keyword list with this approach.

“Another advantage with this approach is that I am nearly independent of the system or application I am using. This approach works in ADM, IS, Ultra Recall and even with a search engine like Coveo, X1 or Yahoo Desktop search.”

The only problems that I can think of with system, Dominik, are the possibilites of forgetting which keywords you have used, or using them consistently. That’s why I prefer a list.

In ADM, I used a combination of keywords and columns, usually hoisting on the keywords, and then referring to the metadata in columns.

For detailed academic work, I find the up-front effort I put into assigning keywords with MDE InfoHandler well worth the time.

BTW, I see you are still waiting for a definition of CRIMP. It is an acronym, and I forget what word each of the letters stands for. However, CRIMP was a term invented by one of our members—I forget which one—to refer to the compulsion some of us have to try and buy new pieces our information-related software. It has been used as a verb and a noun.

Daly