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Tag, You’re It: Can Subject Headings Really Become Tags?

December 9, 2008 by Joe Dalton
Filed in Digital Gallery, Indexes, Metadata, Subjects, Tagging

Last summer a talented colleague, Mark Matienzo, previewed a skunkworks project that he’d been working on at an NYPL DEG presentation. From what I can remember, it involved a Wordpress theme for connecting the oral histories of eminent physicists with archival and current commentary by other physicists. Or something like that. [...]

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Searching for Something?

May 12, 2008 by Joe Dalton
Filed in Search, Subjects, Tagging, Taxonomy

There are over 58,000 subject headings in the NYPL Digital Gallery. Recently I started to think again about what I call subject-fatigue: imagine, for example, a user who wants to browse for “all the stuff you’ve got about theater exteriors in New York City” confronted by an alphabetical list of 58,000 subjects.

One approach [...]

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