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Re: webservice/local aspell My only concern in doing this as a webservice is the overhead. Now, I'm already thinking of doing this via google - so part of the overhead is already there, the only concern would be network latency -- as a webservice I could easily change to host it locally should network response become problematic. I can also swap out the back end if that were needed w/o affecting any/all apps using the service. This is the design concept of being loosely coupled which lately has been roped into the buzzword of SOA (service-oriented architecture). Although, I really haven't started digging into this aspect of the design for this smart search, and perhaps going with a local aspell just for the speed would be worth it (gotta build & maintain a dictionary tho). Re: input/output While a URL-based query could work for a lot of situations, I could see unicode/diacritic issues mucking things up a bit. If this were built as a webservice, perhaps something along the lines of... Input: (UTF8 encoding) * Word, string, required ** the word to be checked * Suggest, boolean, optional (deafult to true?) ** whether or not to suggest alternate spellings (only if invalid word?) * Language, string, optional (default to us_en) ** standard language code (us, * Domain, string, optional (default to global/master/all/whatever) * Version, decimal, optional (default to latest) Output: (UTF8) * Word, string, from original query (auto-correct like google?) * Language, string * Valid, boolean, whether the word is a valid spelling * Suggestions,(group) * Version, decimal Andrew Forman University of Iowa Libraries ISST Development 319 335 9152 -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:13 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] spelling server On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Forman, Andrew B wrote: > I've been asked to create a "smart search" a.k.a "be like google > without any of the resources" ;) for our upcoming new library home > page.... > > I did see something on #code4lib about an ockham server? > Would/should that be part of this? If I were to write such a Web service, I very much suspect it would be hosted on ockham.org. What would suggest the shapes of the input and output look like? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604 AIM: ericmorgan