Library Cataloging
Disambiguation of terms, to some extent, seems possible even in a free-tagging environment. One of the drawbacks often heard about just letting folks put whatever term they lake is that the English language has too many words that are spelt the same but mean something different. Venus could be a planet or a goddess, Mercury a statue, planet, god, or car. However, if enough people use more than one tag software can cluster results based on other terms used. These clusters can then group like items together. Flickr is using this to create clusters of photos. Try searching for Turkey and then click on the cluster option, the results form the country have been seperated from those for food and Thanksgiving. Not perfect, but good enough in many instances. Interesting Now the next hurdle is to include in the cluster synomyns and plurals/singluars, verbs/gerunds, etc.
Folksonomies
- Organizing Tags
Tag Clustering with Self Organizing Maps by Marco Luca Sbodio and Edwin Simpson is a recent HP Labs Technical Report.Today, user-generated tags are a common way of navigating and organizing collections of resources. However, their value is limited by...
- Semantic Web 4 Libraries Pipes
Fiona Bradley at Semantic Library has put together a Yahoo Pipes feed of weblogs covering the Semantic Web for libraries.A while ago now, Jodi Schneider floated the idea of setting up a Planet for Semantic Web and Libraries. I had some trouble with various...
- Ontology Of Folksonomy
From Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges by Tom Gruber:a group of people from the tagging community are beginning to work on a common ontology for tagging - the TagOntology. (Note: this is not about developing a common folksonomy -...
- Rss Tool
Planet looks like a useful tool. No library related Planet sites yet.Planet is a flexible feed aggregator. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.It uses Mark...
- Bates Task Force 2.3 Review
A few days ago, I mentioned the Bates Task Force 2.3 Review. I've now had the chance to read it, and it was well worth the time spent.Something new to me was the 1:30 ratio humans like when dealing with information. When looking at a short title list...
Library Cataloging
Tagging
Disambiguation of terms, to some extent, seems possible even in a free-tagging environment. One of the drawbacks often heard about just letting folks put whatever term they lake is that the English language has too many words that are spelt the same but mean something different. Venus could be a planet or a goddess, Mercury a statue, planet, god, or car. However, if enough people use more than one tag software can cluster results based on other terms used. These clusters can then group like items together. Flickr is using this to create clusters of photos. Try searching for Turkey and then click on the cluster option, the results form the country have been seperated from those for food and Thanksgiving. Not perfect, but good enough in many instances. Interesting Now the next hurdle is to include in the cluster synomyns and plurals/singluars, verbs/gerunds, etc.
Folksonomies
- Organizing Tags
Tag Clustering with Self Organizing Maps by Marco Luca Sbodio and Edwin Simpson is a recent HP Labs Technical Report.Today, user-generated tags are a common way of navigating and organizing collections of resources. However, their value is limited by...
- Semantic Web 4 Libraries Pipes
Fiona Bradley at Semantic Library has put together a Yahoo Pipes feed of weblogs covering the Semantic Web for libraries.A while ago now, Jodi Schneider floated the idea of setting up a Planet for Semantic Web and Libraries. I had some trouble with various...
- Ontology Of Folksonomy
From Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges by Tom Gruber:a group of people from the tagging community are beginning to work on a common ontology for tagging - the TagOntology. (Note: this is not about developing a common folksonomy -...
- Rss Tool
Planet looks like a useful tool. No library related Planet sites yet.Planet is a flexible feed aggregator. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.It uses Mark...
- Bates Task Force 2.3 Review
A few days ago, I mentioned the Bates Task Force 2.3 Review. I've now had the chance to read it, and it was well worth the time spent.Something new to me was the 1:30 ratio humans like when dealing with information. When looking at a short title list...