why I like free-text fields in surveys
I’ve been doing quite a bit of surveying in recent weeks and I’ve been challenged over my liking for free-text fields. My colleague/partner-in-crime was worried that the data would be too...
View Articletreen: the woodsman’s miscellaneous category
As a classification geek, married to a tree geek I was delighted to discover treen which Wikipedia says is “a generic name for small handmade functional household objects made of wood”. I may start...
View Articlee-commerce project: the browse structure
This article is part of a series about our e-commerce redesign. The browse structure of any website is always controversial within the organisation. I’m always struck by the discrepancy between how...
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worst drop down so far this year
Drop-down menus aren’t inherently evil but they do seem to encourage all sorts of terrible behaviour. HMCS CourtFinder includes a menu that is certainly the worst I’ve had to interact with this year,...
View Articleways of adding metadata
I was digging around in my files this weekend and found this table I made once of different approaches to applying metadata to content. At first glance the volunteers example looks like it is only...
View Articleimage findability article in FUMSI
Really good stuff in this month’s FUMSI article by Ian Davis: “Image indexing gets especially tricky, and really parts company from the world of document indexing, with the ‘aboutness’ access to...
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uncategorized
I’ve been looking at lots of alternative format bookstores, as part of the e-commerce project. One of these was the Large Print Bookshop which has a category of ‘uncategorized’. I’m trying to imagine...
View Articlefood is a sub-category of women
I remember when I was first working with the UNESCO thesaurus I was amused to see that ‘home-makers’ was a sub-category of women. I just thought that reflected the age of the thesaurus (it has some...
View Articletalking about auto-categorisation
On Nov 3rd I’ll be taking in part in a panel (with Silver Oliver and Helen Lippell) as part of ISKO UK’s Semantic Analysis Technology: in search of categories, concepts & content. The seminar “aims...
View Articleautomatic classification resources
Following on from the controlled vocabulary resources, I dug out what I have on automatic classification. Strangely most of the information available on automatic indexing/classification/tagging is...
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