OpenWorksGroup/openbadges-directory

Define what data to index

jpcamara opened this issue · 2 comments

There is the obvious data that would be indexed (name, description, tags, issuer). Or maybe the obvious answer is just to index everything, which would also include criteria and alignment (...embedded image data?).

The rabbit hole of indexing comes in discussing whether to index the content of criteria itself, since this could contain valuable/relevant/important data about the badge class as well. If the criteria links to an LRMI definition there would be well defined information that could be utilized in directory searches.

I think the heuristic for now should be "index what's easy" and when it starts to feel like a rabbit hole, that's where we're getting into whitepaper territory. It could be really cool for example to build a branch of this project that can read LRMI from a criteria page as a proof-of-concept, but to be practical, I think fleshing that sort of stuff out should come later as time allows.

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