November 28, 2007 – 8:51 am
As part of a recent leadership program here at education.au Simon (no blog), Will (no blog) and myself took the opportunity to develop a concept for a new style of search engine, designed to supplement the edna distributed search engine with better support for querying structured metadata.
We designed a new type of search interface, using […]
November 27, 2007 – 2:35 pm
One of the projects I’ve been working on has been the me.edu.au professional networking site. Those following the me blog may have some idea of what we’ve been doing, but now we have launched the site so I’d invite everyone to have a look:
Please be aware that it isn’t feature complete, and the site you […]
September 20, 2007 – 4:37 pm
Those who read this blog via an aggregator are probably not aware that we’ve just pushed out a refreshed front page for the blogs.educationau.edu.au site:
You’ll note that this now exposes blog post categories in the now-traditional tag-cloud interface, backed by a sophisticated search built using the open source Solr search engine. This implementation allows search […]
Patrick Lambe at Greenchameleon recently blogged a very positive reaction to a paper my colleague Sarah Hayman presented at the Developing and Improving Classification Schemes conference. His reaction was mostly to our concept of a Taxonomy directed Folksonomy, but he mentioned the idea of person-mediated serendipity. This is an area we agree is a […]
