HI Asaf,
It's an interesting idea and suggests to me crowdsourcing subjects through
something like tagging. For many years library staff have known that the
manner in which subject headings are assigned for library materials is
questionable, yet to come up with a better scheme is difficult. One
problem that tagging shows is that people's command of language is very
different. If there wasn't a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus, people
would create numerous tags that, once combined with other articles, might
be less useful than doing a full-text search.
It's interesting to me that databases like JSTOR don't use subject headings
except with regard to the discipline of the journal where the article first
appeared. They depend on relevancy rankings to assist users in finding
articles. Then there's the RILM database which established what it thought
were fixed broad subject areas, but which are messy once interdisciplinary
articles show up.
Perhaps you can show an example of a single article with the kind of system
you're proposing?
Thanks.
Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello.
Some of you have heard me rant about this for a couple of years now. So,
I finally wrote something up:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Massively-Multiplayer_Online_Bibliography
Much, much to be added, but I'd love for this to be a group conversation,
so by all means, dig in! :)
A.
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