So it's a glamorous search engine, you say. The Lotus Knowledge Discovery System assesses the value of a document by how frequently it's edited, forwarded, responded to, and other criteria, and ranks it for future use and relevance. It does the same with a person's knowledge expertise. The frequency at which documents authored by a particular person are published, forwarded, etc. Relevance ranking as the result of a search is determined by the density of the keywords used in the search criteria.
Density is calculated by the number of keywords divided by the size of the document.
Thus, a small document with four keywords can compete for relevance with a large document with 40 keywords. These techniques help whittle down information. Let's deal with the information itself first. Information capture For information to be cultivated, it must first be captured in electronic form. Not to mention the mathematical theory of the bell curve, which predicts that only a small percentage of all gathered information is highly valuable.