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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 ago it …
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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 …
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 …
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 the …
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