Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Zemanta and History Day?

From the SpellboundBlog on Twitter: "What if online archival descriptions used something like: http://www.zemanta.com to suggest tags, find related collections, and other content?"

Well, first I had go look at Zemanta to see what Jeanne was talking about. Check out their demo -- it's very interesting. Probably more useful for the general blogger than for an archivist (I wonder how many archives-related things it could suggest?), but a very interesting concept. I can see why Jeanne would be interested in using something similar to suggest tags (subjects) and related material from your own collections when you are describing something online.

I wonder if it could somehow be used by several cooperating archives to, for example, blog about History Day materials on a particular subject?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

heya, just a heads up that you can subscribe to your favorite sources in zemanta and get recommendations from them if the general pool is not good enough...

let us know if you have any problems/ideas/... tnx!

best, bostjan
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bostjan@zemanta.com