Taxonomies Tackle Content Classification
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Content-Security Issues
Spam Blockers Tackle Broader
Content-Security Issues
08/30/2004 06:31 AMFrontBridge, others rev filtering tools.
Of Taxonomies and Crumbtrails
Of Taxonomies and Crumbtrails
08/15/2004 03:33 PMI've had an eternal struggle with taxonomies and crumbtrails and
I'll share it with you now in the hopes of find some resolution that
will let me sleep. (Okay, it's not THAT bad, but I have been tossing
this around for days now with no solution.)
A taxonomy is a parent-child classification system. Most every
site has one whether it was planned or not. I work for a commercial
real estate firm, and we have a simple taxonomy, some of which looks
like this:
Home
Property
Office
Industrial
Land
Retail
Investment
For the most part, this works fine. It's simple, and it makes
sense.
Taxonomies also lend themselves nicely to crumbtrail navigation.
If I'm looking at a property in the Office category, I can get a
crumbtrail like this:
Home > Property > Office
However, there are situations that require a piece of property to
fit into more than one category. For instance, there are many
buildings that can legitimately be used for both office and retail.
Therefore, the property ends to appear under both categories because
people browsing either would be interested in it. This is no problem,
as taxonomies are supposed to be able to do this.
But what about the crumbtrail? If I'm looking at a property that
appears in both Office and Retail, which crumbtrail do I get:
Home > Property > Office
Home > Property >
Retail
I can think of two things:
Primary and Secondary Classification
Pick one "true" classification for the property. Just make an
arbitrary decision if its Office and Retail and classify it as such.
Let it appear in the other category as well, but the crumbtrail should
reflect its "true" classification.
A couple problems here:
(a) Maybe some legitimately fits equally in two places. Say one
side of taxonomy classifies by property type (Office, Retail, etc.)
and anothert by size (less than 5,000 sq. ft.; 5,000 - 20,000 sq. ft.,
more than 20,000 sq. ft.). No matter how hard to you try, any
property is going to fit in more than one category.
(b) If someone browses to a category from a "secondary" trail,
they're going to be confused because the crumtrail doesn't reflect
where they came from. For instance, say I give a building a
classification of Office but also let it appear as Retail. If someone
browses to the property through the Retail trail, then tries to walk
back up the trail, they're going to be sent back to Office, instead of
Retail where they came from.
Dynamic Crumbtrails
You can always create the crumbtrail based on the trail the use came
from. So if a user browses to our property through the Retail trail,
display a trail based on that. If they came from Office, display that
crumbtrail.
This seems good, but what if the user didn't browse and was linked
directly? Then what do you use?
So, there you have my quandry. If anyone has a resolution or
thoughts, let's hear them.
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Playing with Taxonomies
Playing with Taxonomies
12/19/2004 03:25 PMPlaying with Taxonomies
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader
.aspx?ArticleID=7357&CategoryID=21
Taxonomies are
critical to good information systems. But can non-librarians develop
effective taxonomies? Several Web sites now being built use socially
developed taxonomies. Del.icio.us and Flickr both attract large groups
of people describing their content in a way that they all can share.
Del.icio.us lets participants share Web bookmarks; Flickr offers
online photo sharing. Finding information on either site demands some
agreed-upon, dynamic way of classifying content, and changing that
classification as the content grows exponentially. Feedback is
immediate; you see whether others agree (use) or disagree (don't use)
your tags. Stewart Butterfield of Ludicorp, developer of Flickr,
thinks this user-driven approach has advantages. "If you can hire
enough excellent librarians, you will get better keyword results than
with social approaches. However, as the content grows, tagging (and
retagging) becomes an order of magnitude more difficult. In other
words, social approaches are 80% as good as and 10 times easier than
top-down approaches." Would Flickr's approach work in the
buttoned-down corporate world? Butterfield says, "Anticipate
resistance in the CIO crowd who don't want to risk losing control in a
social self-correcting process and do not want anything to get lost."
Are Taxonomies Dead?
Are Taxonomies Dead?
01/09/2004 09:58 PMThe taxonomy
was always supposed to be the be-all and end-all of information
architecture. A good, solid category structure was how all the
information in an enterprise was supposed to fit together.
But they're harder to build than you think. There are shades of
gray and complications. You need related categories so people can
jump from branch to branch; you can slice information so many
different ways; who can agree where something fits, etc. I've tried
to build a half-dozen, but I can't point to any major successes.
Is the ideal of taxonomy possible? Or is it just better to invest
in a good search engine? Think about it, when you visit a site, do
you ever browse a taxonomy, or do you just go right to search? If
you're looking for something you've seen on this site, do you wade
through the category list, or just hit the search engine?
When was the last time you actually browsed Yahoo! or DMOZ? I know they're there, but I
haven't visited them in ages. Last time I did visit, what was the
first thing I did? That's right — typed something into the
search box.
Search is a lazy man's taxonomy. It's not as organized or
structured as a taxonomy, but human beings — imperfect creatures
than we are — tend to settle to what's easier. So, as an
information architect, do you stand on principle, or do you cater to
the lazy way your users are going to look for information?
This comes from my current infatuation with wikis. There is no
categorizing of pages in wikis (even after my railin
g against all their shortcomings a few months ago), there's just
search and linking between pages. But the search is good, and it
always seems to work. Same with the search on this site — when
I'm looking for a previous post, it just always seems to work, and
that search is nothing but a SQL "LIKE" query, the dumbest search of
all.
So, are taxonomies an ideal that just don't survive the reality
test?
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Stanford: Taxonomies of Love
Stanford: Taxonomies of Love
04/04/2005 04:45 AMEver since my little affair (no link), I have become considerably less
interested in relationships. Indeed, I’ve been puzzled at…
Extended Faceted Taxonomies for Web
Catalogs
Extended Faceted Taxonomies for Web
Catalogs
12/02/2002 07:12 AMsharing photoshop album taxonomies
sharing photoshop album taxonomies
05/24/2004 03:50 PMthe fascinating thing here is how album uses metatagging instead of
folders
Features: Formal Taxonomies for the U.S.
Government
Features: Formal Taxonomies for the U.S.
Government
02/01/2005 08:52 PMMike Daconta, Metadata Program Manager at the Department of Homeland
Security, introduces the notion of a formal taxonomy in the context of
the Federal Enteriprise Architecture's Data Reference Model.
Stanford: Taxonomies of Love (Aaron
Swartz: The Webl0g)
Stanford: Taxonomies of Love (Aaron
Swartz: The Webl0g)
04/17/2005 10:05 PMStanford- Taxonomies of Love (Aaron Swartz: The
Weblog)
aaronsw.com/weblog/001661
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Meta-classification
Meta-classification
08/28/2004 11:51 AMAt BiologyBrowser.org you'll find the following branch of their tree:
Home > Subject > Systematics > Taxonomy > Classification...
Classification of Computers
Classification of Computers
07/13/2004 01:35 AMWebDevInfo Jul 13 2004 5:28AM GMT
Defying classification
Defying classification
01/23/2004 02:21 PM
What is Planet
Apache?
What
is Technorati?
These questions fascinate me.
Mailing
list vs comments as a venue for dialog? To me, that's
like comparing board meetings vs pubs for as venues for making
business decisions.
I am told that
using
information at the IP layer to affect behaviour two layers up isn't
going to work? And yet I run firewall programs filter
outgoing connections based on the path of the main program which
issued the request. Despite coming up with "perl.exe" for a
fair number of commands, it does seem to catch a lot of
spyware.
Classifications are so impossible, yet so darn useful.
Threat Classification
Threat Classification
07/28/2004 04:34 PMHow to Make a Faceted Classification and
Put It On the Web
How to Make a Faceted Classification and
Put It On the Web
01/06/2004 08:06 AMmiskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.html
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Faceted Classification bibliography
Faceted Classification bibliography
10/30/2003 11:31 PMWilliam Denton created Putting Facets on the Web: An Annotated
Bibliography: a classified, annotated bibliography about how to design
faceted classification systems and make them usable on the World Wide
Web. (Yes, the facet goodness is back on!)...
Sorting things out: Classification and
its consequences
Sorting things out: Classification and
its consequences
11/14/2003 11:26 AMPOPFile - Automatic Email Classification
POPFile - Automatic Email Classification
10/31/2003 10:37 AMMy Usenix LISA talk
WASC Releases Web Security Threat
Classification
WASC Releases Web Security Threat
Classification
07/28/2004 04:49 PMJeremiah Grossman (Jul 28 2004)
Information Architecture: Using Card
Sorting for Web Classification Design
Information Architecture: Using Card
Sorting for Web Classification Design
09/23/2002 05:28 AMFolksonomies - Cooperative
Classification and Communication
Through Shared Metadata
Folksonomies - Cooperative
Classification and Communication
Through Shared Metadata
01/03/2005 10:00 AM"Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through
Shared Metadata" .. folksonomies ..
del.icio.us
adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/
folksonomies.html
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Adobe Jumps The Shark, Reader's
Classification As Spyware Not Far Behind
Adobe Jumps The Shark, Reader's
Classification As Spyware Not Far Behind
03/14/2005 06:07 PMI'm not working from a Windows box as much as I used to these days,
so maybe I'm a little too blissfully isolated from the sheer volume of
crap that most of you put up with from your computer each day.
Tonight, though, I was working from my wife's PC at home, and I
fired up Adobe Reader (The Reader Formerly Known As Acrobat) to look
at a PDF. I've become accustomed to the annoying popup window in the
last few versions that remind you of "important updates", and I saw
this:
What the crap, man?! Since when is Photoshop Album an "Update" to
Reader?! And Yahoo Toolbar?! They've co-opted the at least (dubiously)
useful update program to shill their crap.
Don't get me wrong. I think Photoshop Album is probably the best
photo management program available today. In fact, I already have the
full version installed, which makes the update suggestion even more
idiotic.
It's insane to dilute the interface with this sort of garbage. I
will now dismiss anything that ever appears in the update list as
marketing BS, which means that the update system is now broken because
I'll never use it. Even if it wasn't, the popup window was a horrible
way to notify for updates anyway. Firefox's subtle icon in the toolbar
is a far better way to handle this.
As an app, Reader should be basically invisible. The ultimate goal
of the app should be that, whenever I click on a PDF, it starts
instantly and immediately displays me that PDF in a manner
that's optimal for onscreen reading, and provides just a few simple
tools that I might need. Anything else is serving Adobe, not me, and
that makes the app less valuable. The splash screen is lame, and the
popup update notice is asinine. Adding other apps to the software
update notice is "Pulling a RealPlayer".
Information Architecture: Carrying out a
Classification Situation Analysis
Information Architecture: Carrying out a
Classification Situation Analysis
09/09/2002 06:29 AMExperimental Mozilla Thunderbird Build
with Improved Junk Mail Classification
Available
Experimental Mozilla Thunderbird Build
with Improved Junk Mail Classification
Available
02/17/2004 01:25 AMHot Banana Wins 2005 e-Content Award -
Best Content Management System - CMS
Hot Banana Wins 2005 e-Content Award -
Best Content Management System - CMS
04/08/2005 04:55 AMHot Banana Software Inc., a leading North American Web Content
Management Suite (CMS) company, announced today that it has won the
2005 e-Content award for the best Content Management System. The
Canadian e-Content Awards are sponsored by the e-Content Institute and
were created to recognize and honor e-content products and services
used by Canadian organizations and individuals. [PRWEB Apr 8, 2005]
The Difference Between Online Content
And Broadcast Content
The Difference Between Online Content
And Broadcast Content
02/10/2004 02:46 PMMajor League Baseball made news last year for
claim
ing to own all in-progress game data - saying they were going to
go after websites that reported what was happening at a game in
real-time. It didn't matter that the law is pretty clear that you
can't copyright facts - MLB believes that just presenting the data is
a "rebroadcast" of the game. That said, I guess it's no surprise to
hear that they now believe that web audio and video broadcasts of
games should work the same way as television broadcasts with a content
provider
paying a huge
upfront fee for the rights to the games, and then telling them
they can make it back in ad revenue and subscription fees. Of course,
the various internet sites they've approached with this plan have been
laughing them out the door, and pointing out that they're not
television stations, and they just want to provide something useful to
their users - but aren't going to lose money to do so. While MLB has
been at the forefront of offering streaming video and audio, it
appears they still look on this as a broadcast medium, and not the
interactive medium it actually is. They're doing their best to
squeeze more money out of existing fans, rather than attract new fans,
which is dangerous for the future of the sport. Not only do you anger
your biggest fans, you also make it less likely that you're going to
pick up new fans.
Usenet Content Up For Grabs On Content
Hungry Web
Usenet Content Up For Grabs On Content
Hungry Web
12/19/2004 03:08 PMThe age old question of copyright and Usenet comes up again.
The C# Programming Techniques Content
Area of Premium Content Aggregator
Braintique.com, www.braintique.com, is
Now Open
The C# Programming Techniques Content
Area of Premium Content Aggregator
Braintique.com, www.braintique.com, is
Now Open
02/01/2005 09:17 PMC# Programming Techniques features articles, tips, techniques, and
source code created by well-known author and programmer Harold Davis.
Davis is the author of more than twenty books about programming and
technology, including most recently Building Research Tools with
Google For Dummies published by John Wiley. [PRWEB Jan 30, 2005]
Sun, Sybase, IBM Tackle RFID
Sun, Sybase, IBM Tackle RFID
08/16/2004 12:25 PMSun, Sybase and IBM are developing middleware in a contest for
leadership in RFID management.
Drive to tackle MoT backlog
Drive to tackle MoT backlog
08/12/2004 02:46 AMMoT centre staff prepare to tackle a backlog of vehicle tests as they
return to work after three months on strike.
New bid to tackle superbug rates
New bid to tackle superbug rates
07/10/2004 10:13 PMThe government is set to introduce new measures to tackle hospital
superbugs.
Use your PC to tackle financial problems
Use your PC to tackle financial problems
10/31/2003 10:39 PMScotsman Online Oct 31 2003 9:17PM ET
Centre to tackle net paedophiles
Centre to tackle net paedophiles
03/31/2005 09:53 PMPolice, customs officers and child welfare experts will join a unit to
help protect children from online paedophiles.
Firms tackle web abuse
Firms tackle web abuse
11/14/2003 06:55 AMvnunet.com Nov 14 2003 5:53AM ET
New tackle for amateur phishers
New tackle for amateur phishers
08/20/2004 04:43 PMSympatico Aug 20 2004 8:19PM GMT
Tackle wireless development
Tackle wireless development
05/23/2002 10:39 PMUN talks tackle hunger problems
UN talks tackle hunger problems
04/15/2005 05:11 AMNews.bbc.co.uk - Thu Apr 14, 09:52 am GMT
Techies tackle Billy Bass
Techies tackle Billy Bass
12/04/2003 01:16 AMiafrica.com Dec 4 2003 0:18AM ET
Strategy to tackle domestic abuse
Strategy to tackle domestic abuse
03/30/2005 02:01 AMThe Welsh Assembly Government unveils a three-year plan with £1.1m
funding to tackle domestic abuse.
Tech Summit to Tackle Net Issues
Tech Summit to Tackle Net Issues
11/10/2003 11:14 PMWorld leaders from 56 nations will attend the first U.N. confab on
information technology to discuss such questions as who governs the
Internet and free speech guidelines for the global medium. President
Bush is not among them.
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