[Sigia-l] Information Types

[Andrew McNaughton]

Hi Christer

When using the Dublin Core element set, resource types are listed under
dc.type which means that searching for dc.type on google will find you
lots of commentary and type lists.

Generally I agree with your suggestion that different document types often
have diferent needs for presentation, and in some cases for resource
discovery as well.  For instance the single most important feature I
looked for in the search engine for the SIGIA-L archives was the ability
to order results by date.  The same requirement typically exists for news
archives.

That said, to the extent that it's workable to treat different resource
types in a consistent manner then that's a good thing in itself.

Andrew McNaughton




On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Christer Clerwall wrote:

> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:52:23 +0200
> From: Christer Clerwall <christer.clerwall at kau.se>
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Information Types
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm guessing that this question has been up do discussion on other
> occastion, but
> since I am rather new on the list I haven't seen it.
>
> I want to ask you all if you any reserach on different kinds of
> information (I am
> thinking 'technical information', 'prose', 'news' and 'non-technical').
> As you can
> see from the suggested types I know nothing of this area. However I am
> working
> on an experiment investigating informations structures/navigations
> schemes
> effect on user's feeling for and ability to navigate a web site. In this
> I have the
> idea that different kinds of information might "need" different kinds of
>
> structuring.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> /Christer
>
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> Christer Clerwall
> Ph D Candidate, Media and Communications
> Karlstad University, Sweden
> +46 54-700 11 06
> christer.clerwall at kau.se
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