Hello Gail, Looks like you have an information problem -- i.e. too little information at the source. I guess user tagging of contents --after some broad classification -- doesn't work.
I once talked to someone at Microsoft about the technology used for help suggestions -- they parse text a user types, and an algorithm tries to derive relevant help topic ... but it's not perfect of course Daniel > -----Original Message----- > From: new-boun...@ixda.org [mailto:new-boun...@ixda.org] On Behalf Of > Gail Swanson > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:18 PM > To: disc...@ixda.org > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing > content from multiple automated feeds > > 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. > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Reply to this thread at ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38635 > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
