if:book: thinking about indexing - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Aug 07
  

  Jeremy Price

  books folksonomy indexing information metadata organization philosophy tagging

  • But while the terms may have changed, the problem of making easy paths into a text hasn't gone away. The problem of organizing information quickly comes to light when keeping a blog that isn't strictly time-based like this one: while we set out a few years back with nicely defined categories for posts, we quickly realized that the categories weren't enough. Like many people, we moved to tags to attempt to classify what we were talking about; our tags, unpruned, are as messy a thicket as the most unwieldy index.
  • in a world where Dewey's book is fully searchable online, indexing can seem superfluous, no longer a practical concern
  • A tag cloud, all too often, is just one more widget. I like Mirra's book because it didn't have to exist: the artist had to work to create it.

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