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Server Side Have an IA setup like this: Server 1 2009 Febraury 01_Category_01 01_article_01.xml 02_Category_02 03_Category_03 Server 2 Aggregator Script On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Katie Albers <[email protected]>wrote: > Well, my gut reaction is that -- at least for text-based content -- you're > down to the content itself. I'm assuming here that you *are* dealing with > news. If there are authors associated with the content, then generally > you'll find they're associated with a certain type of content (some > reporters write about sports, some about DC, some about war zones, etc.) and > that gives you a top level way to sort. Then within the content you find > keywords which can be associated with current events. Of course, this still > means that you have an ongoing task of keeping those keyword lists > up-to-date. > > I would hope that the video has better metadata; I'd hate to think of > someone watching hours of video just to sort it. > > I hope there's a better way to do this, but that's all I can think of. > > Katie Albers > Founder & Principal Consultant > FirstThought > User Experience Strategy & Project Management > 310 356 7550 > [email protected] > > > > > > > On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Gail Swanson wrote: > > I've got a design problem that I've been trying to solve for some >> time now, and just can't seem to find the answer to. Perhaps all of >> you out in UX-land have some ideas. >> >> I've been working on a project that has an established taxonomy for >> its content (artlcles, videos, blogs, etc.) but the big challenge is >> how to handle content that comes into the site through automatic >> feeds from various sources. How can we categorize the information by >> topic dynamically? >> >> For example, imagine that a news website imports its article content >> from various news services around the globe. None of the sources >> include consistent topic data. The metadata available are things >> like source and data published, very quantifiable. How would they >> provide a way for the user to browse the available content according >> to categories like "Sports" and "World News" if they cannot be >> derived from the provider? >> >> We're trying to provide a unified experience across the content no >> matter the provider and allow the user to browse by topics. We also >> need to minimize human intervention because of frequency and volume >> of content. Has anyone had success with a similar situation? What >> was the solution? >> >> I've been banging my head against the monitor on this one for a few >> months and would appreciate any ideas. >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [email protected] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
