Archive for the ‘Tagging’ Category
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Bradley Horowitz at The Next Web 09 courtesy of
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After Jeff Jarvis had his take on Google we had somebody from the inside – Bradley Horowitz.Horowitz was the man who advised Yahoo to buy Flickr and after redefining his role there he made them acquire Delicious. Previously he had formed Virage (video categorization engine) and sold it to Autonomy after dropping out of his degree at MIT Medialab where he worked on image categorisation technologies. (more…) |
Tags: Bradley Horowitz, Google, Mental Models, Metadata, search technology, Semantic search, Tagging, Taxonomy, Technology
Posted in Mental Models, Metadata, Semantic search, Tagging, Taxonomy, Technology, search technology | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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A recent article by Alex Iskold brilliantly captures the separations of where we imagine semantic search should be and the reality. Even if it were trying to knock Google off a top spot, what he highlights is that it would be an unnecessary exercise.
Google does its thing very well. Few would argue with that. Alex suggests that semantic search should do something completely different…
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Tags: concept, Concept Models, Findability, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Mental Models, Metadata, Semantic search, Tagging
Posted in Concept Models, Design Theory, Findability, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Mental Models, Metadata, Semantic search, Tagging | 5 Comments »
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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A year ago I was involved in a major restructure of 7 major websites. Each had a new taxonomy and controlled vocabulary created. A clear vision of the direction of each site was drawn up and site maps and wireframes produced. The one problem we had, was there wasn’t a generic metadata schema that was adhered to. It was a combination of ad hoc, legacy tags. Some originated from the SEO team and some from the developers and database administrators on each site.
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Tags: Findability, Metadata, search technology, Semantic search, SEO, Tagging
Posted in Design Practice, Findability, Metadata, SEO, Semantic search, Tagging, search technology | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
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Tagging images at source enables a standard to be reached when all images are used during a production process, both for print and online. If they are tagged properly, valuable metadata can be captured inside the JPEG file that can be read by applications later, either on or off line. (more…) |
Tags: Content Management, Findability, image tagging, Metadata, SEO
Posted in Content Management, Design Practice, Findability, Metadata, SEO, Tagging | No Comments »
