Duplicate-checking? Just added the same URL I already added about 20 mins ago. Site just lets it fly by. Shouldn't the site check to make sure you haven't already submitted the same link previously and redirect to the existing item (if any) in your library? Assuming the URL is identical.
Similarly, perform some kind of title / body heuristics to check for "similar" articles already in the Library. AKA, maybe space.com and astronomy.com both copy the Reuters press release word-for-word, including the title and large chunks of the body text (or sometimes NASA posts the same article in multiple sections of their site). Could the site not then suggest some kind of "grouping" of "like articles"? Kind of a "more on the subject" or "see also" suggestion (the user can agree it's the same basic article, or disagree). If it's deemed they're the same, perhaps similar/grouped items can be collapsible/expandable with a [+]/[-] type button (and list how many "similar" articles there are when collapsed)?
Just some thoughts on things I'd ideally "like to see." Make sense? Hope so...
On the "My Library" page, under each article is a list of tags. 2 requests:
1) Arbitrary # of tags, editable directly, kind of like Amazon.com tagging (without having to click 'edit' where the text box is of limited length, apparently). Perhaps with each tag appearing below having an [x] after it for easy deletion / correction.
2) As mention in prior posts above: alphabetizing is helpful... Perhaps alphabetize the tags at the time they're saved each time? Every time the page is refreshed, so is the list of tags under each item (properly alphabetized, at that).
2nd seems simple enough. Just a matter of alphabetical sorting.
I can see that an arbitrary # of tags per item COULD become a problem in some circumstances. Nonetheless, I found it limiting to be, well, limited to a certain number of characters or words or whatever, when there were still more still more descriptors that I could have used to inform about the contents of a given article or make sure it gets picked up in related searches for a given subject / keyword. Again, more flexibility SEEMS better, in my opinion. Maybe not completely arbitrary, but a reasonably high #. 50, 100 keywords? If larger sets of keywords are permitted, it might also make sense for the tags to be put inside a resizable (based on contents) and moreover COLLAPSIBLE box to streamline page display. If that be so, then perhaps an option to "collapse all" description boxes, tag boxes, etc. on a page (to just a header [title] list).
Yes, definitely the ability to collapse tags and descriptions, so you get just a header list. Kind of like how Google Reader does it, only maybe a bit better? ;o] And with granularity, so you can expand/collapse just for one item, for arbitrary # of selected items or for all items.
When searching in the Community Library, the ability to narrow by tags from the tag cloud.
For instance, I search cosmology. There's a LONG LIST. I don't even know how long because it doesn't give a figure of how many records it's found.
It would be nifty if across those various records it could snag the tags attached to them, count them and then either sort alphabetically (with a count afterward) or sort by count of the number of instances of a specific tag, then sort alphabetically within that frequency of tag usage. So, one could conceivably progressively narrow down the results...
perhaps first to "big bang" then those that also mention the CMB, and those which narrow the focus to "hot spots" potentially even finding those that mention the work of Verschuur (if anyone's gotten that specific on some article).
While one could possibly accomplish something SIMILAR through some combination of search terms, one doesn't necessarily know beforehand which terms have been used in tags. Hence my thought that the system culling tags and ordering them in some browsable fashion would be a helpful navigational tool and a handy way of tunneling down the the specific information one wants to find. Or even stumbling across something interesting that maybe one wasn't looking for specifically, but which catches the eye and the fancy while reading... Fun with folksonomies!
Draggable panes in My Library et al? Ability to customize screen layout. Default seems to be list of articles on left, and collapsible panes for tags and adding links at the right in some hard-coded order.
Would like to be able to flip that and put the function panes on the left and links to saved articles on the right. Then I'd like to be able to drag the pane for adding bookmarks up above the pane for browsing my tag list, so it's always on top.
I'd think this wouldn't be TOO hard to implement for various pages...? But, I'm a newbie, so who knows? But some other sites allow that level of flexibility / personalization... (I'm thinking Facebook's "boxes" and such, which can be dragged around and repositioned rather arbitrarily.) Likewise NowPublic's interface lets you drag around where to put panes for images and videos to pre-defined locations on a given news page...
Similarly, perform some kind of title / body heuristics to check for "similar" articles already in the Library. AKA, maybe space.com and astronomy.com both copy the Reuters press release word-for-word, including the title and large chunks of the body text (or sometimes NASA posts the same article in multiple sections of their site). Could the site not then suggest some kind of "grouping" of "like articles"? Kind of a "more on the subject" or "see also" suggestion (the user can agree it's the same basic article, or disagree). If it's deemed they're the same, perhaps similar/grouped items can be collapsible/expandable with a [+]/[-] type button (and list how many "similar" articles there are when collapsed)?
Just some thoughts on things I'd ideally "like to see." Make sense? Hope so...
1) Arbitrary # of tags, editable directly, kind of like Amazon.com tagging (without having to click 'edit' where the text box is of limited length, apparently). Perhaps with each tag appearing below having an [x] after it for easy deletion / correction.
2) As mention in prior posts above: alphabetizing is helpful... Perhaps alphabetize the tags at the time they're saved each time? Every time the page is refreshed, so is the list of tags under each item (properly alphabetized, at that).
2nd seems simple enough. Just a matter of alphabetical sorting.
I can see that an arbitrary # of tags per item COULD become a problem in some circumstances. Nonetheless, I found it limiting to be, well, limited to a certain number of characters or words or whatever, when there were still more still more descriptors that I could have used to inform about the contents of a given article or make sure it gets picked up in related searches for a given subject / keyword. Again, more flexibility SEEMS better, in my opinion. Maybe not completely arbitrary, but a reasonably high #. 50, 100 keywords? If larger sets of keywords are permitted, it might also make sense for the tags to be put inside a resizable (based on contents) and moreover COLLAPSIBLE box to streamline page display. If that be so, then perhaps an option to "collapse all" description boxes, tag boxes, etc. on a page (to just a header [title] list).
Yes, definitely the ability to collapse tags and descriptions, so you get just a header list. Kind of like how Google Reader does it, only maybe a bit better? ;o] And with granularity, so you can expand/collapse just for one item, for arbitrary # of selected items or for all items.
For instance, I search cosmology. There's a LONG LIST. I don't even know how long because it doesn't give a figure of how many records it's found.
It would be nifty if across those various records it could snag the tags attached to them, count them and then either sort alphabetically (with a count afterward) or sort by count of the number of instances of a specific tag, then sort alphabetically within that frequency of tag usage. So, one could conceivably progressively narrow down the results...
perhaps first to "big bang" then those that also mention the CMB, and those which narrow the focus to "hot spots" potentially even finding those that mention the work of Verschuur (if anyone's gotten that specific on some article).
While one could possibly accomplish something SIMILAR through some combination of search terms, one doesn't necessarily know beforehand which terms have been used in tags. Hence my thought that the system culling tags and ordering them in some browsable fashion would be a helpful navigational tool and a handy way of tunneling down the the specific information one wants to find. Or even stumbling across something interesting that maybe one wasn't looking for specifically, but which catches the eye and the fancy while reading... Fun with folksonomies!
Would like to be able to flip that and put the function panes on the left and links to saved articles on the right. Then I'd like to be able to drag the pane for adding bookmarks up above the pane for browsing my tag list, so it's always on top.
I'd think this wouldn't be TOO hard to implement for various pages...? But, I'm a newbie, so who knows? But some other sites allow that level of flexibility / personalization... (I'm thinking Facebook's "boxes" and such, which can be dragged around and repositioned rather arbitrarily.) Likewise NowPublic's interface lets you drag around where to put panes for images and videos to pre-defined locations on a given news page...