Category Archives: Classification

Curating my blog archive

Posted on May 8, 2022 by x28

Now you can browse my blog archives via category pages that each contain a short summary, and excerpts for most of the blog posts. Continue reading →

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Limit case

Posted on August 27, 2021 by x28

In his new book, McGilchrist applies the concept of the limit case to a large variety of relationships.
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Categories for Sorting

Posted on August 23, 2019 by x28

I need categories. Not for neatly dissecting the world, but simply for sorting. Because unsorted lists require fast context-switching. That’s why I prefer Downes’s articles in a categorized list
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Hostile Acquisition

Posted on March 28, 2014 by x28

An interesting presentation at the DHD 2014 Digital Humanities conference covered different attitudes towards ontologies. Continue reading →

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Topic hierarchies and Sycophants

Posted on December 17, 2005 by x28

An interesting study identifies a type of academic homepages as sycophants, mainly because they link back to their departments. It is true that there are problems with these pages but IMO they are different.
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Perceptions of the Library in Web 2.0

Posted on November 16, 2005 by x28

How would the “library 2.0″ look like? Users’ tags for emerging knowledge, librarians’ classifications for older, settled knowledge?
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Aggregators and topics and context

Posted on October 23, 2005 by x28

How much work should the RSS aggregator do for me? Should it try to group the various feeds by some sort of context such as authors’ topics or tags, or by day, or by geographical location? No, just count and perhaps cache them.
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Fear of the categorical scheme

Posted on September 30, 2005 by x28

In her Cognitive analysis of tagging, Rashmi Sinha hits the core problem when she points to our fear that we would make a wrong categorization decision. “We need to consider the overall categorical scheme.” I think this fear can be mitigated when using cross reference links.
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Cost of tagging in post-search world

Posted on September 18, 2005 by x28

Collaborative library (ColLib, via S. Downes) sounded very promising to me, since I am hoping for the peaceful coexistence of amateur tagging and professional classification that C. Shirky denies (Aug. 27th). His most plausible argument ist cost: Tagging is cheap. But for whom is tagging cheap? For the providers of the tags – okay. But for the consumers?
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Categorized RSS Syndication of Uni Publications

Posted on June 11, 2005 by x28

Our university library is starting off into a new era of Open Access and RSS Syndication, categorized by Dewey. Here is the RSS-Link of the ten most recent self-archival publications, and if you have an aggregator similar like mine (see the 146 kB screenshot), you can sort them by DCC just clicking on the heading of the subject column. I think this is a pretty promising approach, which might soon combine both the capabilities of smart aggregator filters of the users and professional cataloguing by LIS staff.
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