What does TOP mean ?

Walter Landry wlandry at caltech.edu
Mon Apr 27 16:29:08 CEST 2015


Markus Demleitner <msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> Hi Petr, hi SSA crowd,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 01:38:26AM +0200, Petr Skoda wrote:
>> 
>> And does anybody implemented TOP in scoring manner in SSAP ?
> 
> Well, DaCHS accepts TOP but treats it equivalently to MAXREC so far
> (which I claim is legal, as that simply means I give all matching
> results the same score).

I thought that the difference between MAXREC and TOP is that MAXREC
requires an overflow indicator, while TOP would prohibit it.

Otherwise, I agree.  We also treat them the same.

Cheers,
Walter Landry


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