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Classification

Aim: understanding classification systems, then analyzing them or applying them to contents in order to highlight features, create narratives, develop meaning.

Notes

library classification: generally hierarchical tree structure

Folksonomy: collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content

Tag Clouds

classes and categories

document classification:

• content based
• request based

Content-based image retrieval: is the application of computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases.

query/answer

http://demo.imgseek.net/#similar-0 (demo search image)

Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne-Atlas

“The Atlas, wrote Warburg, was ‘a ghost story for adults’: it invents a kind of phantomic science of the image, a ghost dance in which the most resonant gestures and expressions its creator had discovered in the course of his career return with a spooky insistence, suddenly cast into wholly new relationships….

Five laws of library science by S. R. Ranganathan in 1931:

1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his [or her] book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The library is a growing organism.

Bookmarks

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-based_image_retrieval