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 ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
