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04 Sep 07

Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

  • This piece is based on two talks Clay gave in the spring of 2005 -- one
    at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is
    Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies
    & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification."     - forestfortrees on 2007-09-04
  • The strategy of tagging -- free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints -- seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.
  • The main thread of ontology in the philosophical sense is the study of entities and their relations.
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29 Aug 07

ISKME - Home

  • Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
     - forestfortrees on 2007-08-29
24 Aug 07

Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview

  • The Semantic Web is a machine for creating
    syllogisms. A syllogism is a form of logic, first described by
    Aristotle, where "...certain things being stated, something other than
    what is stated follows of necessity from their being so."

The New Is

  • Seems like the essay which spawned Everything is Miscellaneous.
     - forestfortrees on 2007-08-24
21 Aug 07

Tag Clouds: "A New User Interface?"

  • William McKeen bemoans the decrease of serendipity as a result of precisely directed and targeted media, searching, and interactions. Tag clouds - by offering many connections and multiple entry paths simultaneously - may help rejuvenate serendipity in danger in a world of closely focused lists.
17 Aug 07

if:book: thinking about indexing

  • But while the terms may have changed, the problem of making easy paths into a text hasn't gone away. The problem of organizing information quickly comes to light when keeping a blog that isn't strictly time-based like this one: while we set out a few years back with nicely defined categories for posts, we quickly realized that the categories weren't enough. Like many people, we moved to tags to attempt to classify what we were talking about; our tags, unpruned, are as messy a thicket as the most unwieldy index.
  • in a world where Dewey's book is fully searchable online, indexing can seem superfluous, no longer a practical concern
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01 Aug 07

Miscellaneous isn’t disorder (despite my book’s semi-catchy subtitle) | Everything is Miscellaneous

  • The miscellaneous as I use the term

    consists of a pile ever richer with relationships.
  • I’m enthusiastic

    about exactly the opposite: The development of an infrastructure

    super-saturated with meaning.
19 Jun 07

Learning Innovation and Technology Consortium






  • Committed and innovative people can change
    the world for the better. Our mission is to enable youth and adults to solve
    local challenges with sustainable, innovative solutions.

    The key to increased
    capacity is education.

13 Jun 07

JOHO - January 28, 2005

  • Folksonomies are different in important ways from top-down, hierarchical
    taxonomies — the shape we've assumed knowledge itself takes.
08 Jul 06

National Center for Science Education


  • The National Center for
    Science Education     (NCSE) defends the teaching of evolution in public schools.
    We are a nationally-recognized clearinghouse for information
    and advice to keep evolution in the science classroom and "scientific
    creationism" out.
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