When making the move to universal design, there is one tenet of website design that will have to be completely removed from your team’s vocabulary: Pixel Perfect. The viewport allow the user to received your site already at a set zoom settings, so...
But problems arise with the inherent ambiguity of language—words often have multiple meanings, and people can have different interpretations of the same word.The web lacks what librarians call a "controlled vocabulary," a set of terms that have...
Is Google going to use Libary of Congress Subject Headings or develop their own controlled vocabulary and cross reference structure? The full text of the speech is here (thanks John). I have no intention on arguing the intellectual property...
The problem with the web, of course, is that most web authors aren't trained information professionals nor do they use a controlled vocabulary when creating tags. Considered alone, metadata can be a terrific thing, especially if it's created by a...
They're from the subject headings that have been assigned to the books in your results list by human catalogers, using a controlled vocabulary called Library of Congress Subject Headings. Google Scholar isn't the only online service that can help...
Channels are based on terms that come from a controlled vocabulary which, if used correctly, can really aid in precise searching. Btw, it's possible to enter a term and get a result from the controlled vocabulary.
The terms or lexicon come from a controlled vocabulary that SurfWax maintains. Today SurfWax is introducing a dynamic query suggestion tool that can be easily installed and customized on any web site.
The problem with tagging is that it works well in theory, and also in closed environments where a controlled vocabulary is used for creating tags. When Yahoo released MyWeb 1.0 last April, the company took its first steps toward personalizing web...
In other cases, the suggestions come from a controlled vocabulary of terms. Via Threadwatch and an e-mail from Become.com's CEO and Co-Founder, Michael Yang, news that the shopping research engine is now providing dynamic search term suggestions...
You can search keywords associated with each image (I believe from the Corbis controlled indexing vocabulary) or browse random images. A few weeks ago I blogged about content based image retrieval and listed a bunch of resources to learn more...
Like me, he's dubious about tagging for lacking a controlled vocabulary (and also see his further comments about tagging here). Controlled tagging -- in the form of directory categorization -- has already been prone to spamming at places like the...
In addition, especially as Gary likes to talk about, no one uses the same controlled vocabulary. In case you've missed it, there's been an explosion of interest in "tagging," the idea that if everyone labels photos, blogs and so on, we'll more...
They've been assigned to the books by human catalogers from a controlled vocabulary called Library of Congress Subject Headings. When blogging the Google Scholar news I realized that since I started working with Danny and Chris on the SEW Blog, I...
As I've pointed out in the past, the lack of a strong controlled vocabulary (to bring like things together) also causes problems. The Google Maps themselves look very nice on my computer screen and are easy to use.
Again, my reason for sharing is not to say that one specific tool or method (controlled vocabulary vs.folksonomy) are better than the other but rather to introduce resources you might not know about and perhaps promote some thought and discussion.
See also A Controlled Vocabulary to Assist in Describing Images for a look at meta data and photos. In This Issue SES New York Agenda Posted + Search Engine Watch Articles + More From The Search Engine Watch Blog + About The Newsletter
First, keyword search on tags from the Corbis controlled vocabulary, then find related images based on composition of image. John Gartner at Wired News takes an interesting look at the future of image searching in the article: Search Looks at the...
It's available with their news search database and offers search-terms based on a controlled vocabulary. SES New York Comes Next + Search Engine Watch Articles + More From The Search Engine Watch Blog + About The Newsletter
Searching by subject (using a controlled vocabulary) is not available, at least at launch. Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google...
It's available with their news search database and offers search-terms based on a controlled vocabulary. In Danny's blog post about the new Google Suggest beta he mentions a similar type of query refinement tool available from AOL's new Pinpoint...
