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Posts Tagged ‘ semantic ’

The crowdsourcing of tagging: a form of sensemaking

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June 4, 2011

Peter Wylie recently wrote, “As the Internet continues to accumulate more and more information, it becomes increasingly difficult to sort and prioritize that information in a way that provides optimal relevance for each individual user”. In this post Peter also describes Blekko, a search engine that requests users to rank the relevance of their...
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Tables as a form of information visualization

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August 1, 2010

Readers, you may find this blog posting of interest: http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2010/08/the-interpretation-of-tables-in-texts-2000.html First, this guy (not to be rude, his name is Matthew Hurst) did his PhD on the depiction of data in tables. This is interesting in of itself. By tables I mean a plain old box with fields in rows and columns. It may...
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Why Web 3.0 may be a step backwards from Web 2.0

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May 1, 2010

First off, for the purposes of this post I would like to declare that in using the phrase “web 3.0″ I’m referring to the semantic (defined as “meaning”) and “web 2.0″ as collaboration. My apologies in advance to my techie friends who would argue that web 2.0 means a lot more than that (and...
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Wikipedia and Flickr – a semantic marriage?

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September 26, 2009

Wikipedia tends to primarily contain written content on practically every topic conceivable. Although it allows for pictures not every entry has (or needs) visual images. There are rules about what the content considered appropriate, including that it must be of merit (e.g. an article cannot be posted about a person unless they are a...
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