At the Intersection of Technology, Metadata, and Goals

Discovery Architecture lives at the intersection of technology, metadata, user goals and business goals.   
 
In order to be successful, you have to take all four aspects into account when you build a search /discovery framework.
 
User goals and business goals blend together into sets of goals and form a business strategy. 
These sets of goals inform [...]

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Discovery Architecture – In A Nutshell

While on the plane tonight, I came up with a brief, elevator-speech description of Discovery Architecture.
Discovery Architecture
Using technology to interact with and manipulate metadata to enable users to meet their search/discovery goals in ways that also meet your business goals.

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ODE Chronicles: In progress

I’ve been having a blast writing a couple of search apps lately.
If you’ve read my other entries you already know that I favor separating the User Interface, Search, and Data layers more distinctly than the ODE bean that puts ODE objects into a JSP’s request object.  Now I have a more pragmatic reason.  Have you [...]

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