Comments on: [eim][misc] Too big to categorize

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By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:14:30 +0000

David -

Go tags. I note here that not every wiki based system has hierarchical categories; the Localwiki software uses a nice big flat tag space rather than a jointed (or disjointed) hierarchical category system to group articles together.

http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2013/04/categorization-and-its-discontents.html

By: Tom Leckrone

Tom Leckrone — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:38:27 +0000

I just saw this article from 1945 describing associative indexing and thought you might find it interesting! http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

By: Hanan Cohen

Hanan Cohen — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:27:30 +0000

I am the editor of the newsletter of the Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem.

Every month we publish “the scientist of the month”.

I rely on lists such as this to find the next scientist of the month

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:History_of_science/Selected_anniversaries/May

Such lists are created manually. The last time this list got edited was in 2006.

+1 for tags and automated lists.

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By: Tom Leckrone

Tom Leckrone — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:42:32 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Weinberger! As Marshall McLuhan said, “First we shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us.” I believe that the digital tools that are now universally available have indeed shaped us and have put us in a position to develop more powerful shared organizing principles. It seems clear that computer users are capable of accessing and manipulating mental models that are far more complex than previously thought practiceable. Further, this shared scaffolding is prerequisite to shaping communities so that they can harness big data to dramatically expand collective intelligence. (The linear/matrixed models are clearly overmatched given the torrents of information rushing past.) I would submit that a conceptualization based on the sphere and the platonic solids is perfectly suited to bringing order and accessibility to the multiverse of information that would otherwise overwhelm us. Everything is indeed miscellaneous, but we can link the efforts of the couple billion people now (or soon to be) on-line to contextualize and make sense of it all.

By: David Weinberger

David Weinberger — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:08:05 +0000

Tom, thanks. You’ve put better the problem I alluded to in my first two paragraphs.

(BTW, my book Everything Is Miscellaneous is pretty much entirely on the problems with traditional categorization, and the opportunities digital organization opens up.)

By: Tom Leckrone

Tom Leckrone — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:04:00 +0000

Thanks for breaking out the inherent problems wrought once we start to categorize. I would note that Wikipedia’s problem is worse than you state. They actually called the new category “American Woman Novelists.” Which means the parallel would be “American Man Novelists.” Somehow placing a noun as the descriptor exposes the depth of our entrenched views on the “proper” place for a woman.