RE: Knowledge Base for Patent Searching
edlynsimmons@mmd.com
Fri, 17 Nov 95 15:57 GMT
An excellent suggestion! Most important would be
an updating facility - the producer would keep all of
the information that remains useful to those accessing
the knowledge base, updates things that change, and
deletes things that have been erased (not just discontinued).
For example, the old Derwent Plasdoc codes are still used
for searching, but are no longer being used for indexing -
the base would describe them and indicate clearly which
time range they cover. STN keeps upgrading its crossfile
facilities - the base would tell us how to search with the
current software and not how we would have searched in
1992.
That would allow us to throw away old manuals with those
mixtures of current and obsolete information and substitute
the current information collected in the knowledge base.
But who would bell the cat? None of the commercial patent
info companies would spend the time and effort to collect
the information and keep it up to date. It would be
helpful if each of them provided the information on a
separate web page. Could PIUG and/or PATMG create a
web page that linked them all if they were available?
Edlyn simmons