NY Times keywords
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 by Dave Winer.
If you do a View Source on a NY Times story, you'll see that there's lots of metadata in the HTML source code, including keywords for most of the of the stories. Behind this is a taxonomy that I haven't seen, but would like to, very much. I asked them to make this public, both at my meeting there last Thursday, via email and in a phone talk this morning. I think there could be a lot of value in the Times taxonomy. 
In the meantime, I wrote a script last night that tracks the keywords in NY Times stories as they flow through the nytimesriver application. Here's a report that's updated once per hour.
Obviously it would be interesting to be able to click on the keywords to see what articles reference each of the keywords. And it would also be nice to have a cumulative list and a daily list. Right now all we have is the cumulative version.
But it's still pretty interesting, bordering on fascinating to think of the possibilities if they provide the framework behind these keywords.
