Archive for the ‘Information Retrieval’ Category
“Marcia Bates” is a name I’ve seen many times in my LIBR 202 course. Her paper on “berrypicking” techniques for online search interfaces is a particular favorite of mine in no small part because of the remarkable analogy she draws. But I imagine a at least a few of her fellow library science students got a little tired of hearing the name “Marcia” all the time.
In the opening paragraphs of Chapter 1 of Ambient Findability, Peter Morville exhibits an unnatural fondness for his Palm Treo 600, which he uses to demonstrate that “findability serves as a useful lens for seeing where we’ve been and what lies ahead” on the “emerging shoreline that connects the land of atoms and the sea of bits.”
Modern masonry, courtesy of Palm, Inc.
I never had the guts to be a tagger when I was a kid. But now that tagging is acceptable behavior–at least for online social networks–I’m trying to get all “white and nerdy” with a hack of sorts: a controlled vocabulary for tagging saved Delicious bookmarks.