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If YouTube had a Dewey decimal style clickable directory it would be a lot easier to find content.
by sema4hacker 3y ago
If YouTube had a Dewey decimal style clickable directory it would be a lot easier to find content.
- singleshot_ 3y agoYahoo, more or less. You’re not wrong.
- wormius 3y agorip yahoo directory and dmoz.
- wodenokoto 3y agoA librarian friend had the same complaint. The problem is that libraries Dewey decimals are managed by librarians who want to sort things correctly. YouTube would be managed by uploaders who wants their stuff to be managed _incorrectly_. YouTube recommendations and search is a super interesting problem not just because of the scale but also because uploaders are an adverse opponent, trying to keyword stuff their spam.
- waterheater 3y agoThe obvious solution is to actually have librarians correctly classify the videos. DDS focuses on the nature of the work itself, not on the keywords or spam in the content. Librarians understand how to class all kinds of works, and it should be relatively simple to build a DDS/MDS index (Melville Decimal System since it's open, see https://librarything.com/mds https://librarything.com/mds) for YouTube videos. Just like with books, disagreement on classification is inevitable and perfectly natural; there's no perfect classification scheme, though DDS/MDS does a generally good job.
- ghaff 3y agoDewey Decimal is probably not actually appropriate but it would be nice to have a good and appropriate classification scheme be used.
- wodenokoto 3y ago> The obvious solution is to actually have librarians correctly classify the videos Which videos? The 500 hours of video uploaded every minute?
- oefnak 3y agoAll videos of accounts with more than X subscribers.
- nightshift1 3y agoThere is already auto captioning done by YouTube. It would be trivial to plug an ai that generates tags and classify each videos based on the whole content. I am sure they already do that.