Tagging as the wisdom of crowds
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Natalie KParable on structuring content so people can find it.
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Chantal GendronCette article fait un lien très intéressant entre le début de l'humanité et la révolution du digital.
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Add Sticky Note
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Add Sticky NoteTraditionally, people have been loath to attach metadata to objects, because it felt like a chore without immediate benefit. At del.icio.us and other sites such as Flickr, a photo-sharing site, there is a strong social benefit to tagging: We get to contribute to, and benefit from, the tagging done by others. To lower the hurdle and encourage tagging, both sites allow us to type in any word we want, rather than forcing us to navigate some hierarchical, controlled vocabulary. Of course, that also makes it far harder to find relevant objects
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Lowering the boundaries to entry
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Tagging systems are possible only if people are motivated to do more of the work themselves, for individual and/or social reasons. They are necessarily sloppy systems, so if it's crucial to find each and every object that has to do with, say, apples, tagging won't work. But for an inexpensive, easy way of using the wisdom of the crowd to make resources visible and sortable, there's nothing like tags.
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Fernando Sánchez Zamoraescrito sobre los principios organizativos en la era digital en conparación con las restricciones físicas del mundo real
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georgiakharperWeinberger article about the differences between hierarchical organization systems (catalogs) and flat tagging systems (Gmail and deli.cio.us).
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The narrative that tells of the first man and woman encountering the tree of knowledge focuses on its tempting fruit. But after we took the bite, we apparently looked up and got the idea that knowledge is shaped like the tree's branching structure: Big concepts contain smaller ones that contain smaller ones yet. Over the millennia, we have fashioned the structures of knowledge in just such tree-like ways
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"We are discovering that traditional knowledge hierarchies that have served us so well are unnecessarily restricted when it comes to organizing information in the digital world. The principles of organization themselves are changing now that they are being freed from the constraints of the physical world."
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From Trees to Piles of Leaves This is th
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Edith SpellerLooks at different ways of classifying things, including facets and tagging's problems with near-synonyms.
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jen jarsonarticle about tagging
article cataloging classification folksonomies tagging social_bookmarking read_this
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The craft of creating and maintaining trees and faceted systems is well advanced and well understood. Businesses have been built around them. But we don’t yet know the outcome of the current infatuation with tags. The potential is real: If tag-mania continues, it will provide a layer of new metadata, generated by humans for other humans, that will invoke innovation and businesses – and problems – we necessarily cannot anticipate.
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Are Halland"Now autumn has come to the forest of knowledge, thanks to the digital revolution. The leaves are falling and the trees are looking bare."
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Tags have become the meme of the year, at least so far, writing another chapter in the history of classification systems. Tagging is an old idea, but it seems to be taking off now because some applications provide end-users with immediate benefits. For example, at del.icio.us, users enter bookmarks (URLs) they want to remember, adding a word or two – tags – so they can sort them later. Del.icio.us users can see not only everyone else’s bookmarks, but also all the bookmarks tagged with a particular word. For example, if you care about Emily Dickinson, you can see all the Web pages del.icio.us users have tagged with “Dickinson” or “Emily Dickinson,” a great tool for researchers.
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The idea that knowledge is shaped like a tree is perhaps our oldest knowledge about knowledge.
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Marion WaltonTagging as a departure from traditional hierarchical taxonomies, or 'folksonomy'
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Seb PaquetInheritance provides a context by which the individual accretes the accumulated wisdom of the tree just by hanging on a particular branch -- an amazingly efficient way of expressing knowledge.
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Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves
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Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves This is the introductory section of the new issue of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 I wrote. The article goes on to talk about some companies doing interesting things in this area, including Yahoo, Corbis, ClearForest, Chandler, the Dewey Decimal Classification system, Endeca, Siderean, NYTimes.com, del.icio.us, Flickr, Wikipedia, frassle and Technorati. If you'd like the issue, you can buy it here. You can subscribe here. And see you at PCForum? (Thanks to Esther and Christina Koukkos for permission to post this and for being insightful and steady-handed editors.)
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Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves This is the introductory section of the new issue of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 I wrote. The article goes on to talk about some companies doing interesting things in this area, including Yahoo, Corbis, ClearForest, Chandler, the Dewey Decimal Classification system, Endeca, Siderean, NYTimes.com, del.icio.us, Flickr, Wikipedia, frassle and Technorati. If you'd like the issue, you can buy it here. You can subscribe here. And see you at PCForum? (Thanks to Esther and Christina Koukkos for permission to post this and for being insightful and steady-handed editors.)
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Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves This is the introductory section of the new issue of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 I wrote. The article goes on to talk about some companies doing interesting things in this area, including Yahoo, Corbis, ClearForest, Chandler, the Dewey Decimal Classification system, Endeca, Siderean, NYTimes.com, del.icio.us, Flickr, Wikipedia, frassle and Technorati. If you'd like the issue, you can buy it here. You can subscribe here. And see you at PCForum? (Thanks to Esther and Christina Koukkos for permission to post this and for being insightful and steady-handed editors.)
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Amy Gahran"When it comes to innovation on the Internet, metadata is becoming the new content." Well-written article.
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