All posts tagged classification

Dewey Invaders Project

A while ago I thought it would be a ridiculous idea to create a game called Dewey Invaders. In this game the player would be presented with a subject heading and also a series of Dewey numbers, one of which is related to the subject heading. The player would then shoot down the Dewey number that [...]

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by garygre on May 15, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by garygre on May 15, 2010

http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/dewey-invaders-project/

Catalogue and Classify Those Tweets

The recent announcement about The Library of Congress acquiring the back archive of tweets got me thinking again about meaning in Twitter hashtags. I jokingly suggested that L.O.C. might like to classify them all. Thinking about it properly, classifying them might be useful. I’m not thinking about all tweets, but hashtags mentioned in the tweets. [...]

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by garygre on April 15, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by garygre on April 15, 2010

http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/catalogue-and-classify-those-tweets/

Knobbling the Winter Olympic Catalogue Results

In my role of ‘Keeper of the Keys to the Catalogue (once removed)’ for a public library service and ‘Man with Access to Official Twitter Account’, I thought it would be a good idea to promote some of our books around the Winter Olympics. This included trying to get a few more loans out of [...]

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by garygre on February 25, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by garygre on February 25, 2010

http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/knobbling-the-winter-olympic-catalogue-results/