Re: Treatment of Metadata

2008-05-21 Thread Tod
Grant Ingersoll wrote: Hi Tod, Lucene doesn't know anything you don't tell it about your documents/metadata. You would need to create fields for the metadata for a document and then index them. You could just do something like a document with fields: text author createDate ... These all c

Re: Treatment of Metadata

2008-05-20 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hi Tod, Lucene doesn't know anything you don't tell it about your documents/ metadata. You would need to create fields for the metadata for a document and then index them. You could just do something like a document with fields: text author createDate ... These all can be "separate" when

Treatment of Metadata

2008-05-20 Thread Tod
I have a couple of quick questions about how Lucene indexes metadata: - Does it do anything special with metadata or treat it as a supplement to the words in the document? I have a feeling that the answer is that out of the box lucene does nothing special with metadata and that its treated ju