Indexing Translators and Traces

Is a metadata record “almost” expressed in the same language you used for your filter criteria?

If only the machine knew that what you supplied as “depth” in meters, expressed as a double-precision float, was convertible to the target record’s “d_cm” field, expressed in cm as a string value (to preserve significant digits).

It may be impractical for a user agent to negotiate a bridging of query and content schema in real-time, considering the multitude of candidate paths for attribute and entity alignment.

Perhaps, though, certain families of translators can be indexed for opportunistic recognition given acceptable-compute budgets.

Related to this, certain meandering paths of provenance may be routinely important in selecting resources for reuse.

Rather than repeated union-finding of indexed intersections along these paths, it may be worth indexing whole paths or segments thereof.