Hiya,
"All models are wrong. Some models are useful."
I'm of course referring to models as abstract approximations of
reality that will never match it. And scientific consensus on what
appears to be a guide to what reality is like, for the top of the
bell-curve of all human beings. There's some rough sketches we can
agree on. There are details we all get wrong.
Regards,
Alex
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> 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!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Weinheimer weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com
>>> 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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