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By: James

James — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:40:47 +0000

Nice article, I Must say I think folksonomies are a great user tool.
Flexible tagging and search offer fantastic userability improvements.

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Luis Villa’s Blog / the linux desktop’s change problem — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:37:41 +0000

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By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:37:13 +0000

I hit enter before properly arranging those links… should be in the reverse order.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:35:44 +0000

I thought we had been over this ground once or twice before. Here, for your consideration, are some earlier thoughts on the article: http://listics.com/20061121748 Which you kindly pointed to here: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/frank_paynter_on_elaine_peters_1.html http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/beneath_the_metadata_a_reply.html

By: Hugh Davidson

Hugh Davidson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:11:39 +0000

Philosophical logic just makes every topic just so dry and boring. I find it hard to accept any argument that reverts to logic in order to explore meaning.

Nice work David for drawing it out so impartially and convincingly. High fives all round.

By: Thay Singh

Thay Singh — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:08:38 +0000

Your redaction of the text introduces a particularly interesting tension between folksonomies and taxonomies which I’ve not particularly noticed before – even though I worked at a major online content provider on this very topic. In building a taxonomy of documents, the librarian tries to capture the *author’s* intent; but in a folksonomy of the same documents you capture the the *reader’s* understanding. This is a subtle and important difference.

The fact that folksonomies implicitly contain multiple classifications is far less important than this difference in focus. Every library search uses multiple keywords (not necessarily related hierarchically) to describe different texts. I suspect that Ms. Petersen’s real issue is that she feels that she can do a better job than the millions of amateurs building the folksonomy. She is right, and a librarian’s taxonomy (ontology is a better term) is still valuable; but her point of view does not capture the reader’s understanding, and that is critical information.

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Notional Slurry » links for 2008-12-01 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:05:19 +0000

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