Re: forwarded... [Explicit Linking is Impossible]

Edward Vielmetti <emv@garnet.msen.com>
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To: aronsson@lysator.liu.se
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: forwarded... [Explicit Linking is Impossible] 
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 06 May 93 01:21:40.
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Date: Thu, 06 May 93 00:14:55 EDT
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@garnet.msen.com>

  
  What exactly does "pre-load a search" mean, and how do I implement
  this in an HTML document?  Say that I want to refer to the WWW
  Provider's Style Guide by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, for the section
  about how big to make each document.  Now, all of you readers of
  www-talk can find this manually, and have probably already read that
  text, but that is not why someone invented hypertext and the
  world-wide web.  How do I do this without explicitly saying
  href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Provider/Style/DocSize.html"?
  
Let's say that we had the equivalent of "archie" or "veronica" for
WWW.  Call it "spidey".  Then you could say
	href="spidey://spidey.msen.com:5000/DocSize.html"
(to match by file name) or	
	href="spidey://spidey.msen.com:5000/timbl+style+docsize"
or maybe even
	href="spidey://spidey.msen.com:5000/ISBN=2-012523-096-3+docsize"

Search #1 is the equivalent of the archie "-e" exact search.

Search #2 is the equivalent of a WAIS or Gopher search, with some
keywords; you can imagine a slightly enhanced version if you know that
the database is somehow structured.

Search #3 is what you would do if you do if major World Wide Web
collections had International Standard Book Numbers, and shows a
reference to an index in a book.

Each of these are probabilistic, but they should *both* get the user
close enough to the document to make it possible for them to find it
on ther own *and* not be immediately obsolete once the document
changes or moves.

(you hope)

  Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 998 4562 (fax: 998 4563)

ps if you use "spidey" please give me credit :)