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User-accessable meta data creeping in everywhere
March 22, 2006 |
This little feature, available with Amazon.com’s book listings, heralds a quiet revolution:
Explore: Concordance | Text Stats | SIPs | CAPs
Browse: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
If you don’t have this for your content..look out..
I note how quickly meta-data and tags are being exposed in most e-commerce sites…
Basically each html page is displaying semantically-rich data about its content.
See Amazon’s “Concordance”–their nice word for tag cloud-type display of the content of a book..
Also see Amazon’s SIP and CAPs, and text stats..
Note that these forms of semantic analysis are all machine generated.
In addition, note that the profiles of any given work–the semantic profiles of any given work–can now be referenced against any other.
Do you know what is happening, Mr. Jones? Among other things Amazon is out-doing Google in terms of relevant, open meta-analysis of book content–and Amazon has a straightforward business model for their service–and a straightforward ways to compensate publishers and thus authors…
Earth in Mind : On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, 10th Anniversary Edition. With a new introduction and essay by the author (Paperback)
by David W. Orr “IF TODAY is a typical day on planet earth, we will lose 116 square miles of rain forest, or about an acre a second…” (more)
Explore: Concordance | Text Stats | SIPs | CAPs
Browse: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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