On 10/4/13 4:23 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> We are heading for systems that have models closer to the human model
> of understanding. Oh, did I mention Topic Maps? *grin* Regards, Alex
Hmmm. Human model of understanding? Having read a fair amount in
cognitive psychology, AFAIK there is no single model yet accepted. To
see a good overview of the various theories (which differ significantly
from each other) I recommend:
The Big Book of Concepts
By Gregory Murphy <http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/gregory-murphy>
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/big-book-concepts
kc
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:56 AM, James Weinheimer
> <weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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>> First Thus http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/
>> First Thus Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus
>> Cooperative Cataloging Rules
>> http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/
>> Cataloging Matters Podcasts
>> http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html
>
>
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