Resources and Subject pages ... towards better web


One of the most interesting aspects of subject centric computing (and smart search) is a relationship between resources and subjects.

I use several news web sites such as EWeek and ZDNet to check news in computer industry. Each time when I read an article I (automatically) estimate it from perspective of subject centric computing. General practice is to reference other news articles on the same web site, provide links to company web sites and links to conference web sites.

That's not how it should be in a subject centric world. In subject centric world we should have special kind of resources - subject pages. Subject page provides summary information about subject with links to other subjects and (regular) resources.

Several examples of subject page collections:

Wikipedia (sample pages: Topic Maps , Treaty establishing a constitution for Europe, Search Engine , WiFi Microsoft ,IBM)
Internet Movie Database (sample pages: Troy , Brad Pitt, Wolfgang Petersen )
Yahoo Finance (sample pages: Microsoft IBM)

Italian Opera Topic Map (sample pages: Tosca , Giacomo Puccini , Teatro alla Scala )

When I read an article on IT news web site I would like to have references to subject pages for companies, events (! such as company merges , spin-offs, product announcements), technologies, people, products etc. In this case I can easily jump from article to subject pages where I have links to other related subjects and resources.

I think web can be much more user friendly if we have additional resource layer - subject pages.

Posted: Wed - October 27, 2004 at 11:45 PM      

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