Tonight on GeekNights, we muse a bit on the problem of discoverability. Nearly all experience is mediated, and this includes deciding what web site to look at. In the news, Rym is back from Zenkaikon, Moon Zooz is continuing to rock it, the cosmological constant might not be, niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a dangerous idiot.
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Part of my field is to do exactly this. For books we have techniques to help narrow down what you are looking for and have created ways to have a jumping off point for you to find something that will lead you to more advanced topics.
A big discussion I am having at work is what we are going to do to get metrics to have people go onto the new platform and view the materials we have. One of the biggest issues though is that we are bound by licenses that will prevent us from remix materials to memify what is there as a form of advertisement.
Linked open data is supposed to be the answer but like many academic ideas no one took the steps to make it easily to implement. Its still around but the infrusture cost to get it working is high. Thankfully I know how to get there so going to very slowly impliement things to lay the ground work for future me to tackle these issues.
