Comments on: Content Analysis for re-use http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2007/09/14/content-analysis-for-re-use/ musings on technical communications Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:16:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: magia3e http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2007/09/14/content-analysis-for-re-use/#comment-262 magia3e Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:21:17 +0000 http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2007/09/14/content-analysis-for-re-use/#comment-262 Hi Gordon Thanks for the link-love! Semantic analysis is a great way to understand content, but you're right, it's not for everyone. Given a sample of content it can tell you the structure and associated meaning (ie. categories) associated with that content. This is good for creating better indexing of content -- and Google does it this way so that search results are great rather than just ok. I guess then the question is, do you need to understand content at such a detailed level? If it's just a content audit you're doing, then the answer is probably 'no'. If the question is to turn content into discrete elements so that it ability so that machine readability improves (like I needed to do with the medical restrictions text), then the answer is probably 'yes'. M Hi Gordon

Thanks for the link-love!

Semantic analysis is a great way to understand content, but you’re right, it’s not for everyone.

Given a sample of content it can tell you the structure and associated meaning (ie. categories) associated with that content. This is good for creating better indexing of content — and Google does it this way so that search results are great rather than just ok.

I guess then the question is, do you need to understand content at such a detailed level? If it’s just a content audit you’re doing, then the answer is probably ‘no’. If the question is to turn content into discrete elements so that it ability so that machine readability improves (like I needed to do with the medical restrictions text), then the answer is probably ‘yes’.

M

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