wahlau's online hut

if you are not new to the Internet, or better, not new to the whole Web 2.0 trend, you definitely know something about social bookmarking, namely perhaps the best example: del.icio.us.

while looking through things and writing up concepts on my work, i suddenly have this thought: I wonder how many people really using it, and what do they think about such tools/concepts. del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks [1]. It allows people to use folksonomy to name their web bookmarks, and people can exchange and find related web bookmarks by using this facility.

Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museum: proof of concept

by Jennifer Trant from Archives & Museum Informatics/Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. pdf obtained from here.

published in New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2006.

Summary:
This paper presents the author's work in the area of applying social tagging and folksonomy in managing information and contents found in museums. The approach implemented is called steve. The work they do here is similar to the currently known and popular social tagging sites, such as del.icio.us or conotea, but the application of the now-hot tagging technique is focused in the area of museum information. The work studies the feasibility and result of user-created/managed knowledge in a highly professional area - art and history. The tagging of paintings and artifacts aims to help visitors identifying and finding artwork they have seen. Visitors can also help each other by collectively adding tags (which are objective definitions) to the various artwork. 

i am reading this book from Peter Morville now, and trying to learn to see things the way the author does. In his book he quoted this person, Calvin Mooers and his Mooers' law:

you might shout "oh no, not another one!?", but i know i just need to note down things i have done, so that i can redo them easily without search around the whole world just to overcome a simple step which can take you and me another precious 20 minutes.

1. SDK installation and start

- to start preparing your box for SDK development, read this. 

- it might be useful to double check your scratchbox distribution/version, and also to reinstall it according to the one mentioned in the wiki. it saves you at least the trouble to have something different from the given example.