Classifying Resources

Ivan, Lee, All

As a base suggestion for a tagging guideline for SW related resources, I'd
suggest using the following tags in addition to  sweo.

software - For product/project home pages
browser, dbms, inference, .... specifies the type of software.
book - indicates a textbook, applies to the book's home page, review  or
listing in Amazon or such.
article - magazine article
case_study - Article on a business case
presentation - Powerpoint or similar slide show
demo -  interactive SW demo
blog - blog discussing SW topics
organization - If the page is the home page of an organization, research,
vendor etc, see below.
person - If this is a person's home page or blog, see below.
recommended - If the resource is seen to be in the top 10 of its kind

If the page describes an organization, it can be tagged as

vendor, research, end_user

If the page is a person's home page or blog or similar

opinion_leader, researcher, journalist, executive, geek,...


The type of audience can also be tagged, for example"

general_public, beginner, technical, research


Like this, queries like "sweo beginner presentation" give meaningful results
on del.icio.us.


Of course, all this classification could be represented as a SKOS ontology.

When stored as for example a SIOC graph where topics correspond to tags  and
bookmarks to posts, any SPARQL compatible  faceted browser or such provides
a ready-to-go user interface for discovery.  We'll show this along the way.
The  del.icio.us database with systematic tagging will be fine for input.

There should be no privacy concerns since this is all simply about
expressing opinions on publicly available material.

Orri

Received on Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:30:38 UTC