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 the …
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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 for …
In @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion, Margaret Kipp looks at the words people use to tag sites in social tagging applications (like del.icio.us) Most tags are, as we expect, tags that name subjects. Car, cat, calculator, and such. Of the non-subject words there are many that seem to fall into two …
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Sites like del-icio.us, while providing an interesting (voyeuristic?) look into what sites other people are finding interesting, are primarily about collecting things for myself and making them refindable. How is refindable different from findable? And further on how can looking at what cues people create for making things refindable for themselves inform what we do …
Quickly folks — it’s almost 5 on friday but I couldn’t pass this up. Alt Search Engines throws up some odd little SEs on it’s Friday round up and this one just came across the feedreader. BananaSlug That’s right our Pacific Northwe(s)t Mascot — the banana slug — has got it’s own search engine. and in …
