Jul 1

Keyword Categorization: Thinking Out Loud

Here’s the problem with taxonomies and content categorization schemes: no one will maintain them. You can set up the greatest content tree or grouping structure in the world, but sooner or later, content authors (yourself included) are going to get complacent.

That’s because the value-add is on the reader’s end of the equation, not the author’s, so there’s not a compelling reason for an author to go to the trouble. What do you do about this?

This, then, is an exercise in thinking out loud.

by Deane   July 1, 2003 1:45 PM   |
  tags: 
Inktomi, Verity

Comments

by Taka,   July 1, 2003 6:43 PM  

Great article. I couldn't agree more with the bit about people not bothering to maintain metadata. This is why I'm a bit cool on the whole idea of a Semantic Web :-)

Slightly OT, what were you doing at Inktomi/Verity (I used to work building search engines)?

by Deane,   July 1, 2003 7:04 PM  

I didn't work FOR Inktomi, I used Inktomi at my last employer. Great product. What search engines were you involved with?

by Taka,   July 1, 2003 9:26 PM  

Ah. My misteak :-)

For various reasons, I don't want to mention the name of my old employer. But it was a neural net- based search engine aimed at corporate intranets. Some pretty cool technology except that we were prevented from producing a truly kick-ass engine by corporate politics :-(

That's one of the great things about starting your own company - you get to do things your own way! All the ideas and improvements that we wanted to put into this search engine but weren't allowed to will be going into Awasu instead :-)

by Deane,   July 2, 2003 12:08 PM  

I got the new system running in beta last night, but two problems: (1) we really need to wait until we have a boolean-capable version on MySQL, and (2) we need to get all the past entries "keyworded" before it would show any real value.

by Deane,   July 2, 2003 12:11 PM  

Adam Kalsey ( http://www.kalsey.com ) sent me some related articles:

http://kalsey.com/2002/07/relatedentriesplugin/

http://kalsey.com/2003/05/relatedentriesrevisited/ (this is very similar, right up until the voodoo-ish related keywords thing I want to do)

http://crossroads.net/a/archives/2003_05.php#000983

Good stuff.

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