first pass at a p.g. categorization scheme
appended is a "first pass" at a p.g. categorization scheme. unlike the "tagging" models, i'm using here a "folder" model. inside each folder will be a bunch of alias "files" that point to the e-texts proper. this allows you to put one e-text into multiple folders, by simply generating another alias file. the possibility of nesting folders is also present. as i've said, i think the cataloging tool needs to give people an ability to rule out unwanted classes of e-texts, including: first cut -- by language second cut -- human genome third cut -- audio fourth cut -- video fifth cut -- magazines sixth cut -- copyrighted seventh cut -- reference eighth cut -- religious ninth cut -- poetry tenth cut -- plays eleventh cut -- short story collections twelfth cut -- anthologies and once a person has ruled out whatever they don't want, the downloading of the other e-texts can go automatically. -bowerbird p.s. books top-100 titles selected top-100 titles in html fiction nonfiction reference dictionary encyclopedia thesaurus quotations poetry plays short story collections anthologies religious heavily illustrated beatrix potter children's beatrix potter cookbooks how-to guides magazines punch/punchinello scientific american items of interest that are not text and not html audio music human-read books text-to-speech books video copyrighted work human genome project languages other than english french german italian ...
Bowerbird@aol.com writes:
as i've said, i think the cataloging tool needs to give people an ability to rule out unwanted classes of e-texts, including:
first cut -- by language second cut -- human genome third cut -- audio fourth cut -- video fifth cut -- magazines sixth cut -- copyrighted seventh cut -- reference eighth cut -- religious ninth cut -- poetry tenth cut -- plays eleventh cut -- short story collections twelfth cut -- anthologies
Functionally this is no different from using Borges' fictional Chinese encyclopedia for dividing different kinds of animals. first cut -- belonging to the Emperor second cut -- embalmed third cut -- tame fourth cut -- sucking pigs fifth cut -- sirens sixth cut -- fabulous seventh cut -- stray dogs eigth cut -- included in the present classification ninth cut -- frenzied tenth cut -- innumerable eleventh cut -- drawn with a very fine camelhair brush twelfth cut -- et cetera thirteenth cut -- having just broken the water pitcher fifteenth cut -- that from a long way off look like flies Your folders are just as semantically flat as tags. You're also mixing different classes of metadata. language : English, French, Finnish etc. format : audio, video, html, plain_text form : prose, poetry, drama, anthology, serial, reference nature : fiction, biography, religious, textbook licence : pg_licence, cc_licence, restricted, gpl etc. Though personally, I would love to be able to rule out all ebooks "having just broken the water pitcher". b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Banqwao, Thailand
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