James Linden wrote: Jen Zed wrote:
(Actually, any info about UniBook would be really useful to me, as I've started to think about the site front-end, but can't go very far unless I know what the back-end looks like.)
I'm still working on the tech docs -- the 6 pages of docs that we put on the wiki took me almost two weeks -- tech docs are going to be about 6 pages - per section!
Can I help with this? I'm a technical writer - if I can get access to the application, I can probably do a lot of the grunt work just by playing with the app. Or are these specification documents that describe the work that has to be done to UniBook to get it to a usable state? jen.
Jen, I know I'll regret asking this... but what is a "folksonomy" (As mentioned in the wiki) Andrew
No need to regret the question. :) I'm playing around with the idea of building the PG Canada site as both a document portal and a community portal. My idea is that it would be cool to allow users to have (*optional*) PG-CA "personas", with personal bookmarks, areas for discussing books, saved interface customization, saved searches, etc. On feature of a community site could be support for a "folksonomy", which is an informal, non-heirarchical, per-user set of classification keywords associated with books. These informal tags can be seen by all users, thus allowing semi-serendipitous browsing of the PG-CA stacks. Folksonomy classification would be in addition to any formal classification we do as part of the publication process. Folksonomy tags would be stored at the user level, not as part of the meta-information about the book. As an example, UserFoo might add the folksonomy tags "bugs" "black_flies" and "creepy_crawlies" to a book called "A Survey of Pond Life in Upper Canada". UserBar might add the tags "tadpoles" "mosquitoes". UserBas could search the folksonomy tags "black_flies" and "tadpoles" and get a list of books contain both of these folksonomy keywords. There's a (better) definition of Folksonomy (with some excellent links) on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy). Sites that use folksonomies include http://del.icio.us/, http://www.flickr.com/ and http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/. jen. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:43:11 -0800 (PST), Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
Jen, I know I'll regret asking this...
but what is a "folksonomy"
(As mentioned in the wiki)
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I've run into someone whose poetry I would love to include in the PG Canada collection. James McIntyre, who is apparantly "widely regarded as the worst poet in all of Canadian literature." And his topic of choice was cheese. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McIntyre Andrew
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