Keith,
As you might imagine, this is a huge area of research. You might
take a look at a book called "How Search Engines Work." It is written by
a professor at the Universtiy of Tenessee and gives a good introduction to
the standard data structures/algorithms for such things.
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Travis Bauer | CS Grad Student | IU |www.cs.indiana.edu/~trbauer
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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Keith Grennan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a co-op student at the Joint Astronomy Centre in Hilo, Hawaii. I got
> hired to organize ALL of the company's technical documentation into a
> single searchable database. The only direction my boss gave me for this
> project was "you should use Postgres". So now I'm left to propose and
> implement a DB that will allow users to add documents, do
> keyword/author/title searches, and display the found documents on the web.
> This must be a fairly common problem. Is there a standard database
> structure for this? Are there any good books or online resources that
> might give me some ideas? I realize that this is a pretty general
> databasing question, but I'm not sure where to start. Thanks in advance
> for your help.
>
> Keith Grennan.
>