Once in a while it is a good and refreshing thing to revisit some of the classics. In this case a paper that I consider to be a primary lens for looking at information seeking behaviours.
Something struck me as I was rereading Marcia Bates‘ “The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the On-Line Search [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
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TQR- Berry Picking Time (with apologies to both Ms. Bates and Great Big Sea)
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Semantic Zooming, Oh, I Thought You Said Semantic Zoning.
Just the usual reading too quickly this a.m. and I got semantic zoning instead of semantic zooming.
On reflection semantic zoning may be more useful concept. Think of sematic zoning like county zoning. You know, urban planning. Perhaps (?) our classification schemes need to be a bit more like a city. Some bits [...]
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um, er, oh dear, not that kind of attached…
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Tagging: It’s pretty darn close to useful on Amazon.
Tagging had gotten everywhere. It’s the latest “gotta have” for your website. Gotta have tagging and one of those cool cloud things in the right hand column. But tag clouds are often just so much noise. Can’t tagging be put to better use?Did you know that there is tagging in Amazon? Six months [...]
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Feature Request – Search “My History”
Last week ago I wrote about the big blue bin virus that struck our neighborhood. While I was pondering that particular post over my morning tea I vaguely remembered seeing something interesting along the same lines a day or two ago- or rather a possible explanation of the mechanism that causes weird behaviors like putting [...]
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TQR – a little bit of Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification (and Put It on the Web)
This morning’s during the slog up treadmill hill I read through Wm. Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It on the Web.
I’ll have a lot more to say about it in a couple of days. (Beware.)
This morning I only want to point you to the section 4.2: Faceted Navigation: Three Questions and [...]
Jul 09
TQR- A Simplified Model for Faceted Classification – Not for the Faint of Heart
This little gem is not for the faint of heart. I wish “A Simplified Model for Facet Classification” had been around when I was struggling with Ranganathan’s colon classification scheme in library school. I, and I believe many other LIS students of my time, were entirely put off the idea of faceted classification by [...]
Jul 06
Blue Bin Virus
We live in a place that has “curbside recycling.” Kind of a stretch considering the nearest curb is 9 miles from here but… Every other week we put a huge blue wheelie bin in the bucket of the tractor and haul it down to the county road to be picked up. (The green bins are [...]