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Saturday, March 30, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6133 Noesis: Is it a library with built-in searching or a search engine with a built-in library? Peter Suber Every discipline has a rapidly growing body of literature on the Web. Many hard-working volunteers in every field have built Web directories of this literature. Some have even built discipline-specific search engines. As the scholarly content on the Web grows, life gets more and more difficult for these directory and search engine editors. Think about the problems they face. They must try to cover the field, or their own topic within the field, comprehensively. They must distinguish worthy literature from unworthy. They must discover new sites within a reasonable time and add them if they are worthy. They must fix or delete dead links. The directory editors must organize their contents to help users navigate. If they can, they should offer searching, not only of the links and their annotations, but of the full-text files to which they point. Finally, they must use methods that scale up as the relevant body of literature continues to grow. Methods that worked five years ago when the Web was small no longer work today. Noesis (http://noesis.evansville.edu) is an online library and search engine for the field of philosophy that solves these problems. Moreover, the software enabling it to solve them is transferable to any other discipline....
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