On 10/4/2013 3:04 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
<snip>
> "Individual pieces of content aggregated together into one experience."
> Isn't that linked data?
>
> No, but UI components such as cards that create the experience can be built
> and connected easier/better if the data underpinning them is linked.
</snip>
As it says in the article, because of the huge growth in APIs and SDKs
(that is, individual applications working behind the scenes to give a
specialized kind of access and retrieval and do not have to have
anything to do with linked data) "is driving the web away from many
pages of content linked together... " into what the author claims will
be a type of a card display. This is because mobile will probably be the
main wave of the future, so while there is such a great deal of
information that *can* be aggregated together, there is a corresponding
loss of screen size, therefore: something has to give. Even the latest
Google update, Google Hummingbird, which they claim is like replacing
the engine on a car:
"Panda, Penguin and other updates were changes to parts of the old
algorithm, but not an entire replacement of the whole. Think of it again
like an engine. Those things were as if the engine received a new oil
filter or had an improved pump put in. Hummingbird is a brand new
engine, though it continues to use some of the same parts of the old,
like Penguin and Panda." Google claims they changed it to improve
something they call "Conversational Search". Search Engine Land has a
good review of Hummingbird.
http://searchengineland.com/google-hummingbird-172816
Conversational search is natural language, uses semantic technologies
and who knows what else but it is obvious that conversational search
envisions people interoperating with their mobiles by voice. Google
Glass works only by voice so conversational search has to work for it. I
must acknowledge that when I try to use the touchpad on my android
phone, all I do is type mistakes. It is much easier to use the voice
input, even though it makes me feel like Captain Kirk ordering Scotty to
beam me up.
I don't care for the idea of "cards" given in that article in "Inside
Intercom" but the logic seems to be inescapable. Smaller displays can
only handle so much, just as people can only handle so much. How can the
library catalog adapt to that?
Will the Next Generation Catalog for Libraries actually be a return to
the cards? That would just be too ironic!
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Received on Fri Oct 04 2013 - 10:57:03 EDT