Just back from a walk with Peretz on which we discussed automated methods of producing metadata, P feels that free tagging should be taken one step further, couldn't quite understand what he was getting at, but he made some very vigorous gestures. He also wonders why library catalog systems don't tell you about records other people who've looked at the record you're looking at have looked at. I told him Amazon probably has a patent. We both think that new ideas about what constitutes the context of a document could be very helpful, we tried to come up with some, haven't gotten very far.

Anyway, nice to be talking about something other than our romantic troubles, hard to imagine Peretz has any, I know, but smaller dogs- to be blunt, chihuahuas- can be quite temperamental.