Faceted Navigation of User-Generated Metadata (JDCL 2006 Workshop on Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories)

Faceted Navigation of User-Generated

Metadata

Faceted Navigation of User-Generated

Metadata

JDCL 2006 Workshop on Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories

Bradley P. AllenFounder & CTO

Siderean Software, Inc.

JDCL 2006 Workshop on Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories

Bradley P. AllenFounder & CTO

Siderean Software, Inc.

Copyright © 2001-2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Overview

• Faceted navigation depends on metadata

• Users are increasingly a source of rich, dynamic metadata

• User-generated metadata provides opportunities for new and compelling applications of faceted navigation


Metadata about data and content

is aggregated

Building a faceted navigation application (in Seamark)

Transformed into a unified information architecture expressed in RDF/OWL

Term

Event

Person

PlaceText

Analyzed to generate an

application profile for faceted

navigation of the aggregated metadata

Presented as an end-user navigation application


Faceted navigation requires metadata

• Faceted navigation depends on metadata

• This metadata has traditionally come from– Relational databases– Content repositories– Labor-intensive manual processes


Users can be a source of metadata

• Faceted navigation creates a framework to bridge the gap between metadata and the user– Exploit implicit (usage) and explicit (subject)

user-generated metadata to reduce labor costs of the repository

– Leverage the metadata which is at hand in increasing amounts on the Web

• RSS, FOAF, SKOS, etc.


Example: user tagging

• User tagging is massively collaborative subject indexing with uncontrolled vocabularies– A new point on the metadata cost/value continuum

pioneered by del.icio.us, Flickr

• How can this play with traditional subject indexing?– Folksonomies can make taxonomies more responsive– Taxonomies can make folksonomies more responsible


Case study: fac.etio.us




Faceted navigation + tagging


Faceted navigation + tagging








User-generated metadata: the value chain

• Publishers

– User-generated metadata increases

the value of core content and data

offerings

• Contributors (enthusiasts, editors,

remixers, librarians)

– Tools for remixing, tagging, annotating

and playlisting content and data

enhance value at the metadata level

• Consumers

– More navigable rich data and content

• Advertisers

– Higher-yield ads based on paid

navigation rather than paid search

PublishersContributor

s

Advertisers

Consumers

Tags, attention

Ads and links

Tags and leads

Tags,

facets and remixes

Digital assets

Tags and facets

Tags, attention

Digital

assets


Questions

• Where else can we end up on the user metadata creation cost/value continuum?

• Can we get more value by filling out a few more fields?– Possible approach: case frame instantiation in

Poptonic


Current work: Poptonic


Current work: Poptonic

Siderean Software, Inc.390 North Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 2070El Segundo, CA 90245-4475 USA+1 310 647-4266http://www.siderean.com

ballen at siderean dot com

Siderean Software, Inc.390 North Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 2070El Segundo, CA 90245-4475 USA+1 310 647-4266http://www.siderean.com

ballen at siderean dot com

Faceted Navigation of User-Generated Metadata (JDCL 2006 Workshop on Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories)

Technology

faceted navigation

generated

case study

current work

user

metadata

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