| [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Using Google (or generally external) features in Wiki and for organization. |
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Hi, today in the AC meeting we have had a request
for using Google calendar for managing the meeting and the attendees. Generally the usage of such tools has
several drawbacks from my point of view. 1.
We add structured information
to Google, when we are doing something. 2.
The search in our WIKI is
negatively affected. I don’t want to add further work to
ones task. And I do not have an idea yet, how to reduce the amount of time that
has to be invested without such a tool for coordination. Therefore I would vote with 0 on such a
point. Generally I would add a comment of moving
this information out of our control. As we move more and more information out of
our IT system the usage of search or similar features is getting more and more
complex on our data. As a result the only chance to get access to the content is
the use of a spider to crawl the website. This crawler would be used for
creating a search index or similar. If we want to improve access to information
in our IT systems – like wiki or other page content – we should be
in control of our data. If not, accessing the real content we would always have
the issue on making a decision, what is real and what is just navigational (or
similar) data. Access to the content is therefore much more complex and that
could affect the abilities of search algorithms. Search or other knowledge management
features… as categorization, content based routing, search and many more will
get more and more complex or may work not optimal. From my point of view we should keep control
on such data. This would give us options for flexible operations with our
content. Georg |