Making things findable

[angelo-v]

As a pod owner I want to find things by their human readable name
because I do not want to remember cryptic or complex URIs.

As a pod owner I want to decide which things I can find by their name,
so that I do not get too many irrelevant results.

Acceptance criteria

• when viewing a thing I can choose to make it "findable"
• Findable things become part of the label index and show up when searching for them in the search bar (see Full text search #19)
• I can revoke my decision, i.e. remove a thing from the index and therefore from the search results
• I get an indication whether a thing is searchable or not
• When editing a thing that is in the index, the index gets updated

[angelo-v]

Open question: Should a user have multiple index documents? How to decide where to add to?

[josephguillaume]

Open question: Should a user have multiple index documents? How to decide where to add to?

Search is working really well for me. In my preferences file, I specify as private label indexes:

• A manually created file that has major app entry points.
• Issue names in a tracker - I do have to manually recreate this label file because it uses dc:title instead of rdfs:label As part of this process I also only include open issues - I'm less likely to want global search of closed issues
• SOSA features of interest for digital home - used as is where they are defined.
• Feeds/video subscriptions - used as is where they are defined

With open-with functionality, these all potentially open with a custom app too (still experimenting with this).

Most items are therefore not manually added to the index but instead a whole category of items is added by adding the relevant resource document.

[angelo-v]

Also address books have people and group indexes which also could be considered when searching