Tag Archives: taxonomy

Defining the human context for search and retrieval.

I’m trying to wrap my head around all of the information I’m reading about image search. Search, retrieval, information, data, all of these terms are loaded, and used differently depending on whether I’m reading an HCI paper, a text analysis paper, or a blog post about search engine optimisation (SEO). In hopes of simplifying things, …

March 27, 2008 – 17:22 | By dariusz | Posted in Masters Research | Tagged , | View Comments

On why it is dumb to categorise ideas.

The gentleman in this video, Dr. David Weinberger, thinks it’s a pretty terrible idea to try to categorise ideas in the same way we categorise physical things in the physical world. Many people who deal with information on a regular basis tend to think that since you can only stack a chair in a single …

March 1, 2008 – 12:35 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , | View Comments