TopicMaps in Oslo
April 2-4, I’m going to TopicMaps, a conference that may be particularly interesting (to people who are particularly interested in it, of course):
The basic idea is simple: the organizing principle of information should not be where it lives or how it was created, but what it is about. Organize information by subject and it will be easier to integrate, reuse and share – and (not least) easier for users to find. The increased awareness of the importance of metadata and ontologies, the popularity of tagging, and a growing interest in semantic interoperability are part and parcel of the new trend towards subject-centric computing.
The organizers have let it be known that there’s still room… [Tags: conferences topicmaps oslo everything_is_miscellaneous]
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What about authenticity?
You *don’t* want to “integrate, reuse and share” any information into your knowledge which is suspect because the creator doesn’t have a rigorous approach to research or is receiving a chunk of change from your local friendly PR firm.
Your logic legitimizes the MSM in their effort to cull the Web for
content that is selected for its ability to generate buzz.
All tags are not created equal. More metadata, not less.
Bill, I pretty much agree with you about this, although I think “more metadata” can include spammy metadata so long as we have metadata about the metadata or can in other ways filter out the spammy metdata when we want to (which will be most of the time).
I’m not sure where you’re finding the implications you’re drawing from the paragraph I quoted, though.
David, Please consider coming to our COMMUNIA workshop Ethical Public Domain: Debate of Questionable Practices, which will be March 31, 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania. http://www.ethicalpublicdomain.org It would be great to debate with you!