Managing Content Categories
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When populating a respository for a CMS, categorization of information becomes key. This collaboration will explore different strategies of categorizing content.


Manual Categorization

One strategy is to allow content providers categorize their submissions. After all, who would be more able to categorize the information than the person who created it?

Folksonomy (Social Tagging)

Bill has posted a nice blog entry on this phenomenon of community-based, social bookmarking.

Letting Content Providers create categories


Letting Content Providers select categories


Automatic Categorization


Simple Filters

An example of a automatic rules-based categorization is a "junk mail" filter.

Complex Learning

There are machine learning algorithms that could automatically classify the content, based on rules and a "training" dataset.
  • Neural Networks
  • Naïve Bayes
  • Support Vector Machines
  • K-Nearest Neighbors (kNN)

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Contributors to this page: Bill Albing , Rick Sapir and Chief Editor .
Page last modified on Monday, October 08, 2007 02:01:42 pm EDT by Bill Albing.

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