Library Cataloging
Stop the War on Metadata by Jeffrey Beall appeared in the Library Journal for July 15, 2006.
- Flamenco Search Interface Project
UC Berkeley has released the Flamenco Search Interface as open-source.The Flamenco search interface framework has the primary design goal of allowing users to move through large information spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property...
- Search Engines And Resource Discovery On The Web
Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Dublin Core an Impact Factor? by Mehdi Safari appears in Webology 2(2).This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Dublin Core metadata elements on the retrieval of web pages in a suite of six search...
- Searching 2.0
Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search by Ebrahim Ezzy and Richard MacManus is the start of a series of postings on new search tools. It contrasts the early page content ranking to the link based ranking to the new specialized tools. How can tools like these...
- Federated Searching
The article The Truth About Federated Searching appears in Information Today. It lists five misconceptionsFederated search engines leave no stone unturnedDe-dupe really worksRelevancy rankings are totally relevantFederated searching is softwareWe don't...
- Taxonomy, Classification & Search
Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & Search by Jeff Morris appears in the Sept. issue of Transform Magazine. His conclusion, a combination of free text searching, classification and vocabulary control is better for searching, than just...
Library Cataloging
Stop the War on Metadata
Stop the War on Metadata by Jeffrey Beall appeared in the Library Journal for July 15, 2006.
For decades, metadata has been at the core of librarianship. In recent years, however, there has been a growing revolt that threatens metadata-enabled searches in favor of full-text searching. If the revolt succeeds, full-text searching will make metadata as rare as card catalogs, thus leaving information discovery at the mercy of keyword searching and whatever murky relevancy ranking a search engine provides.Metadata
- Flamenco Search Interface Project
UC Berkeley has released the Flamenco Search Interface as open-source.The Flamenco search interface framework has the primary design goal of allowing users to move through large information spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property...
- Search Engines And Resource Discovery On The Web
Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Dublin Core an Impact Factor? by Mehdi Safari appears in Webology 2(2).This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Dublin Core metadata elements on the retrieval of web pages in a suite of six search...
- Searching 2.0
Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search by Ebrahim Ezzy and Richard MacManus is the start of a series of postings on new search tools. It contrasts the early page content ranking to the link based ranking to the new specialized tools. How can tools like these...
- Federated Searching
The article The Truth About Federated Searching appears in Information Today. It lists five misconceptionsFederated search engines leave no stone unturnedDe-dupe really worksRelevancy rankings are totally relevantFederated searching is softwareWe don't...
- Taxonomy, Classification & Search
Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & Search by Jeff Morris appears in the Sept. issue of Transform Magazine. His conclusion, a combination of free text searching, classification and vocabulary control is better for searching, than just...