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10 Oct 07

Errata: Tagging Words

  • Glossaries and topical dictionaries.
  • Collaborative lists.
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04 Sep 07

7 Things You Should Know About... Social Bookmarking

  • An EDUCAUSE Resource: "7 Things You Should Know About... Social Bookmarking" addresses a community-or social-approach to identifying and organizing information on the Web. Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks one would normally make in a Web browser to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords. The community-driven, keyword-based classifications, known as "folksonomies," may change how we store and find information online.
     - forestfortrees on 2007-09-04

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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28 Aug 07

paul walk’s weblog » Blog Archive » Tagging: Are we in the Trough of Disillusionment?

  • But I can’t help wondering if we haven’t already reached the Plateau of Productivity - the last stage in the Gartner curve and absent from Phillipp’s diagram.

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."

Why Tagging Matters

  • Essay by David Weinberger making several distinctions between the "Semantic Web" and folksonomy.
     - forestfortrees on 2007-08-24

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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