On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:51:08 -0800, Ronald Chmara <ron(a)opus1.com> wrote:
On Mar 10, 2005, at 1:56 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
So, do we need another kind of *indexing*, or
just a new way of
cross-reading existing categories?
Magnus
Kardos András schrieb:
> Yes, a *primitive* form of an index.
> Alfio Puglisi <puglisi@...> writes:
>> Aren't categories a primitive form of index?
>> Alfio
I think I understand some of the original intent behind this idea, so
let me expand upon what I thought the idea was.
Let's take an existing article, which already has some categories:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
It has a fairly small set of current indexed categories:
Categories: 1929 births | 1945 deaths | Diarists | Dutch writers |
Murdered writers | Holocaust | Dutch World War II people | People with
asteroids named after them
It does *not* have the following possibly relevant, hypothetical(?),
categories attached:
People born on June 12 | Famous Jewish People | Famous Young Authors |
People who hid during the holocaust | Authors whose work has been
disputed | Authors whose work was redacted by their family | People who
died in Bergen-Belsen | Authors whose work had been converted to
theater | Authors whose work became opera | Authors who were born in
Frankfurt am Main | Authors born in Germany | Famous Reform Jews |
Famous Montessori Students | Famous Aachen residents | Events of July
8th | Events of October 28th | Authors who told biographical account
using pseudonyms | People published in Het Parool | Plays by Goodrich
and Hackett | Pulitzer Prize winning Dramas | .... (the list goes on
and on)
Aside from "Authors born in Germany" which "Authors who were born in
Frankfurt am Main" would be a subcategory of these are all valid, the
problem is that they lead to alot of clutter currently, it has been
proposed that a "hidden cateogory" feature be added, for example for
featured articles (their categories are currently on the talk pages, a
lame hack) and this index feature looks similar to that.
As you see, the currently existing categories can scratch the surface,
but can also miss many connections (as currently implemented).
As I understand the idea, it is about either:
a) Much more human indexing categories being applied
b) Automated systems so that the "what links here" kinds of information
are added in some way to existing indexes, or categories, or utilized
in an obvious way to display existing connections....
-Bop
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