On 25-Jun-08, at 8:53 AM, Peter Cliff wrote:
Stevan Harnad wrote:
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
What if the full-text lacks certain keywords that are
relevant for discovery/searching? I'm not convinced the
content of a document is enough to accurately (and
sustainably) describe what it is about. This email, for
instance.
That said, I'm not disagreeing that update of repository
deposition has been slow - but I'm not sure we can blame
that on just the need for metadata!
(1) I will wager everything and anything I own that the main thing
that has been holding back IR deposits is keystroke inertia.
(2) The way to remedy keystroke inertia is not to ask for even more
keystrokes!
(3) I profoundly doubt that if an article lacks some key keywords,
they cannot be inferred by smart text-processing software. (But if
you are dead sure of that, add some optional author key-word boxes to
your IR's deposit interface...)
Harnad, S. (2005) A Keystroke Koan for our Open Access Times.
(Unpublished)
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11125/
Stevan Harnad
Received on Wed Jun 25 2008 - 14:38:36 BST