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Opposing hand-tagging. No view on usefulness of automated tagging (except that I think boolean full-text search is in general far more powerful than taxonomy search -- though of course any available taxonomy can be covered by the boolean search). -- SH On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Neil Godfrey wrote: > 2008/6/25 Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>: >> >> Hand-tagging in terms of any pre-fabricated classification scheme is >> unnecessary keystrokes. The classification tagging, if any, can be done >> by software, after deposit, either at the local IR level or the global >> harvester level, or both. >> >> Hand-based pre-classification schemes means you have the (possibly >> extensible) subject categories, and you hand-tag the document in terms >> of them. Computational post-classification means software has the >> document plus the the (possibly extensible) subject categories, and >> automatically tags the document. > > Can you clarify pls? I am not sure if you are opposing classification schema > per se or the current methods of applying them or something else? > > Thanks, > > Neil Godfrey > > > http://metalogger.wordpress.com >