Friday, April 08, 2005
Ontologies, Vocabularies, Folksonomies
Many-to-Many: Tags != folksonomies && Tags != Flat name spaces: "Tags are labels attached to things. This procedure is absolutely orthogonal to whether professionals or amateurs are doing the tagging.
Professionals often think tags are covalent with folksonomies because their minds have been poisoned by the false dream of ontology, but also because tagging looks too easy (in the same way the Web looked too easy to theoreticians of hypertext.) Not only are tags amenable to being used as controlled vocabularies, it�s happening today, where groups are agreeing about how to tag things so as to produce streams of e.g. business research."
Professionals often think tags are covalent with folksonomies because their minds have been poisoned by the false dream of ontology, but also because tagging looks too easy (in the same way the Web looked too easy to theoreticians of hypertext.) Not only are tags amenable to being used as controlled vocabularies, it�s happening today, where groups are agreeing about how to tag things so as to produce streams of e.g. business research."
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