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Aug. 28th, 2005 @ 11:58 pm Development on Del.icio.us
Here we are with a new semester to begin and I'm getting ramped up. To a certain extent I've been doing this all summer long, at least since my acceptance to the MLIS program at SCILS (RU). Research means finding things on the web, recording their existance and categorizing them for future accessibility. A pile of books in the middle of a room isn't a library, a roster of links isn't folksonomy.

But it ain't easy either. I've been through two major revisions:
1. The first iteration stressed geographic origination over content. I think spatially so it made sense to sort things by point-of-origin. But p-o-o says POO about about meaning and is useless as a category of analysis. Now, if the levels of categorization ever become very sophisticated I'll probably work my way down to geospatial orienation as a category of meaning, but certainly never THE primary key of rationalization. In short, first big fuck-up. We learn.

2. The second time around I decided on a more meaningful set of categories and sub-categories (see below). But I was't happy with the composition of link names themselves. For better or worse I'm a child of Redmond, so I think hierarchically. There is a usefulness to this way of through, but only of the hierarchy is 3-dimensional. The old DOS hierarchies were triangular, flat. Top, middle and bottom all existed on one plane. Time, depth and dimension played no role in WOD -- the world of DOS. But the Internet changed all that, smashing barriers imposed by place and time, and allowing for the creation of truly 3-D (string theorists might say 11-D, but I'll let them argue that one out).

I wanted to connect tag fragments with arrowheads (carets) in order to demonstrate interlinkable, detachable, configurable relationshipts between tag fragments, each of which would comprise almost limitless compound tag formations simulating depth and dimension within the hierarchy. OK, I have'nt given up on that principle yet, but let's just sum up that go by suggesting, in short: second big fuckup.

The thrid go-around abandons illusions of introducing novelty to the process -- in effect, I've surrendered. Look at my del.icio.us site now and it will look vary familiar. You've seen hundreds of them, literatlly, as have I. Hey, for now it works. If you want to see a digital-library bookmark site that =really= works give a gander at http://del.icio.us/spdegabrielle/ -- I wrote him once but he never answered. Too busy I'd imagine -- or didn't think enough of my missive to bother. In any event, his site is much more mature than mine and should be considered a better template, whereas mine is more a work-in-progress.

For what it is worth this is what I've got: 142 links in 12 categories, each of which subsumes many sub-categories.
There will be time to parse -- analyze and re-parse -- the organization, but for now this is what I am going with. Lots of work to be done and everyone knows more than me, so please lay it on! Robert

12 TAG BUNDLES

1.Digital-Archives
2.Digital-Libraries
3.Digital-Libraries-Metadata
4.Digital-Libraries-Periodicals
5.Digital-Libraries-Projects
6.Digital-Libraries-RutgersU
7.Digital-Libraries-Tools
8.Digital-Libraries-Universities
9.Digitized-Collections
10.Digitized-History-Collections
11.Digitized-Humanities-Collections
12.Misc.-Locations

BUNDLES UNPACKAGED

  • Digital-Archives

    26 Digital-Archives


  • Digital-Libraries

    95 Digital-Libraries


  • Digital-Libraries-Metadata

    4 digital-libraries-dublincore

    10 digital-libraries-metadata


  • Digital-Libraries-Periodicals

    7 digital-libraries-articles

    15 digital-libraries-periodicals


  • Digital-Libraries-Projects

    3 digital-libraries-centers

    2 digital-libraries-conferences

    2 digital-libraries-consortia

    2 digital-libraries-initiatives

    2 digital-libraries-labs

    4 digital-libraries-organizations

    15 digital-libraries-projects

    7 library-of-congress

    5 us.gov't


  • Digital-Libraries-RutgersU

    11 rutgers.u


  • Digital-Libraries-Tools

    2 del.icio.us

    1 digital-libraries-audio-tools

    11 digital-libraries-tools

    4 Folksonomies

    3 linux

    2 oai

    2 open-access

    2 software


  • Digital-Libraries-Universities

    2 columbia.u

    2 cornell.u

    43 digital-libraries-universities

    1 harvard.u

    1 lehigh.u

    1 lund.u

    1 oxford.u

    11 rutgers.u

    1 stanford.u

    1 suny.albany

    1 texas.a&m.u

    1 tufts.u

    1 u.arizona

    1 u.chicago

    1 u.heidelberg

    1 u.houston

    2 u.illinois.uc

    1 u.maryland

    6 u.michigan

    1 u.minnesota

    1 u.mississippi

    1 u.northcarolina

    2 u.pennsylvania

    1 u.pittsburgh

    1 u.so.california

    1 u.tennesee

    2 u.virginia

    1 u.wisconsin

    5 uc.berkeley

    1 washington.u


  • Digitized-Collections
    68 collections


  • Digitized-History-Collections

    30 digitized-history-collections

    4 digitized-history-collections-18thC

    2 digitized-history-collections-19thC

    7 digitized-history-collections-20thC

    1 digitized-history-collections-ancient

    3 digitized-history-collections-labor

    3 digitized-history-collections-medieval


  • Digitized-Humanities-Collections

    1 art

    2 audio

    3 bibliography

    1 biography

    2 buddhism

    1 dissertations

    1 education

    1 ethnicity

    1 googleprint

    1 gutenberg

    2 humanities

    3 images

    7 literature

    2 maps

    1 pepys

    1 perseus

    1 photos

    1 quaker

    2 religion

    3 social-sciences

    1 text

    1 theses

    1 victorian

    3 women


  • Digitized-Misc.-Locations

    1 africa

    1 alaska

    1 america

    2 asia

    1 california

    1 europe

    1 himalaya

    1 illinois

    1 india

    1 massachusetts

    1 michigan

    1 minnesota

    2 newjersey

    2 newyork

    1 northcarolina

    2 pennsylvania

    1 spain

    1 sweden

    1 trans-ireland

    1 u.k.

    2 u.s.

    1 wales

    1 washington-state

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