Re: [status] weekly report

From: David Huynh <dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:14:46 -0400

David Karger wrote:

> isn't there a way for user to name the auto scraped fields?

Not yet. And one might argue that there is a better way to align the
ontologies auto-generated for several sites than individually naming
each field.

David

> David Huynh wrote:
>
>> David Karger wrote:
>>
>>> david, this is very nice. how about giving me a toggle so I can
>>> flip between the original view and whatever standard pb view I am
>>> using (which might make it easier to compare things).
>>
>>
>> I can put in the toggle... but I have to say, the standard view would
>> be almost nonsensical for auto-scraped items. Most predicates will be
>> field0, field1, field2, ... And then there are 2 predicates with
>> meaningful names, innerHTML and original-order, but which are useless
>> to humans.
>>
>>> Also, how close is this to letting me display one item in a
>>> _different item's_ original style?
>>
>>
>> We are not yet able to match auto-scraped predicates from different
>> sites yet. And without that matching, we can't use one site's
>> template to show another site's items.
>>
>> David
>
Received on Mon Apr 24 2006 - 20:13:27 EDT