Hi
I have had an idea for a while now which I think will help to address
the internal information system "problem". The basic idea is to create a
knowledgebase but with a difference.

Each entry in the knowledge base should have a categories field. THis
field would work like this. The category entry would be percentage
dependant. In other words if it fits a particullar subject well it gets
a 90% fit. With the ability for one entry to have multiple categories.
The result would look like this
Entry1
Category1 90%
Category2 45%
Category9 85%

Each entry should also have a keywords entry. This would work on the
same principle as the categories where a keyword could have 100% to 10%
relevance.

The third aspect of the knowlegebase would be a "links" field also with
a percentage attached. The linksfield will have a additional property
called direction which would have 3 value -> or <- or <-->.
The purpose of the linksfield is the following. When I do a search on a
specific subject I would specify: find me all the categories that is 90%
to keyword X and search for all the links 50% strong 3 levels deep.

The result would be that I would get N results that is related to each other


Result1
Result1.1
Result1.2
Result1.3
Result1.3.1
Result1.3.2
Result2
Result3
Result3.1
Result3.2
Result3.2.1
Result3.3
Result3.3.1

The power of this is that result 1,2,3 would give me a immediate answer
to my question where the subresults would give related answers and help
to solve other problems that might arrise.

The proposal is that a web-page with subscription option should be
created where this database resideds and where members may add contents
links etc to the database.

I hope you understand the concept I am trying to convey.
Please let me know what you think.

Cheers
Gerhardus Geldenhuis