{"id":1650,"date":"2009-06-13T05:47:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T05:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2009-06-13T05:47:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T05:47:31","slug":"common-tag-and-search-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/13\/common-tag-and-search-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Tag and Search BOSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks somewhat interesting. Just launched, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commontag.org\/Home\">Common Tag<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;is an open tagging format developed to make [ <em>Web<\/em> ] content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From what I read, it sounds a bit like herding cats &mdash; attempting to persuade (firstly) bloggers and social bookmarkers to use standardised vocabularies and terminology for content tagging.  I suspect it&#8217;ll find difficulties in gaining traction, simply due to the sheer size of the Web. Nice logo, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2009\/06\/commont.jpg\" alt=\"commont\" width=\"253\" height=\"95\"><\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to see an academic version, which could auto-read a document and suggest and automatically embed (microformat or RDFa?) tags using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/research\/conducting_research\/vocabularies\/aat\/\">A&amp;AT<\/a> terms. <\/p>\n<p>And I just found out about the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/search\/boss\/\">Yahoo Search BOSS<\/a>, which seems to have been around in mature form since late 08. It&#8217;s Yahoo&#8217;s competitor to Google CSE. It seems to have appeared during their recent takeover troubles, which doesn&#8217;t inspire confidence.  However, it&#8217;s getting new features and appears to be under active development.  New sorting functions have apparently been added to BOSS, offering sorting by date and\/or a specified time range (although it seems that may be limited to custom News search?).  There&#8217;s also a Python-driven mashup feature, although at present people seem to be using this to add rather naff-looking context-aware sidebars alongside search-results. There&#8217;s also a kicker in the small print&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the near future, we will be introducing a fee structure for BOSS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If sorting by date was a feature that could be added to Google CSE results, and a keyword-targetted RSS feed was then allowed to run from that sorting, JURN could feed you a usable approximation of a rolling keyword-specific table-of-contents alert from 3,000+ ejournals. Does the current standard open access ejournal publishing software allow that sort of cross-journal alerting service, I wonder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks somewhat interesting. Just launched, Common Tag&#8230; &#8220;is an open tagging format developed to make [ Web ] content &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/13\/common-tag-and-search-boss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-search","category-how-to-improve-academic-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}