All: Does anyone have experience adding subject organization to small collections of digital scholarly resources in a way that's long-term scalable but short-term usable? I'm working on a project about a nearly-dead language, and one of the site's components allows users to search/browse metadata for scholarly resources (these metadata will contain links to the resources themselves.) At the beginning there will be perhaps 20 items in the list; eventually there may be hundreds. I'm trying to figure out the best approach from a UX perspective*; my priorities are findability of the resources; future scalability; ease of implementation.
I am considering the following three options but would love any feedback and/or insight you have. 1) Tags: allow many subject-related tags to be associated with a given resource record. (Might include user-generated tags, might not.) 2) Steal Library of Congress or other subject headings from existing records, where these exist; fake 'em where they don't. 3) Create new taxonomy. Ouch. *but my perspective is hopelessly skewed by a career that began in traditional librarianship, for what that's worth! -- Abigail Plumb-Larrick www.plumbinformation.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
