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Text Data Base |
What are the basic elements of Text Data Bases? |
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Drupelets* |
Drupelets are the atoms of Text Data Bases. Druplets consist of textand some other attributes. These attributes, both required and optional, are detailed
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Outlines |
Outlines are a molecular structure that consist of a hierarchical resolutionof some drupelets.
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Diarys / Logs |
Diarys and Logs are time-series oriented collections of Drupelets. |
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Druplet Attributes |
What attributes are required(*) and what are available? |
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Text* |
The text attribute is the central focus of text data bases. This attribute containsthe `body' of the text item. Drupelet text is typically about one paragraph in length, although
there are not (yet) rigid rules about this.
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Title* |
The Title of a drupelet is a phrase or sentence that describes thetext content. The title is always present, but it can be flagged as invisible
and therefore not output in some contexts.
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Short Title |
A short version of the Title. It is not yet clear whetherthis will prove to be useful, but it is worth discussing.
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Referrer |
A label for the drupelet. The referrer is unique in a particulardomain (for example within a document), but there is no guarantee of uniqueness across
different domains or sites.
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Universal Locator |
A unique designator for the drupelet across all domains and sites. |
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Date/Time |
Several different dates and times might be relevant. Among them aredate of first creation, date of last modification and date of last use.
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Author |
The name of the principal author of the drupelet. |
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Responsibility |
The name of the person assigned responsibility for the drupelet. |
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Authority |
The defining authority (soruce of facts) for the drupelet. |
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Markup |
The text in a drupelet may well be marked up according to a numberof different schemes.
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Scraping |
What are the sources of text? |
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Original |
Original data capture will probably be from many different types of editors,ranging from simple ASCII editing tools, through widely available products like Word
to more sophisticated technologies.
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HTML Decode |
An important source of information is text derived from scraping HTMLscreens into drupelets.
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Manipulation |
What forms are available for manipulation? |
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Simple ASCII |
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Comfortable ASCII |
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Vault |
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Python Card |
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Storage |
How are text data bases stored? |
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MySQL |
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Access |
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KDB |
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Publishing |
What forms of object publishing are available? |
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To HTML |
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To TeX |
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Paper |
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Index Cards |
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