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Hi I normally don't post into blogs like this but I need help with Taxonomy. I am a recruiter who has a nice job for someone in taxonomy. They would need to be able to develop the taxonomy and implement it across a large corporation that currently has nothing in place. If any one can point me in direction as to where I could find such a person I would be very grateful. Thanks for your help
Greg

David,
What if the internet is a 'Scalefree netwrork' ?
as many phisics are now saying.

I tend to consider context as king in the net.
if you didn t already, you may be interested in this kind of papers
http://polymer.bu.edu/~hes/networks/mbsa02.pdf

The Wikipedia category system, for one, or DMOZ as another example. Do they count?
denny

That's way too vague a question. But, I think it's fair to say (and even a truism) that free tagging keyword systems scale in ways that controlled vocabularies can't.

Wikipedia and DMOZ are interesting examples if you imagine that there are a mob of taxonomies on the web that start with, say Wikipedia, and then follow every link from there and continue through the taxonomies of every site linked. For example, one could say that this hierarchy is part of such a taxonomy:

Wikipedia / Categories / 1950 Births / David Weinberger / Evident Home / JOHO the Blog / Newsletter / August 21, 2006 issue / One Web Day [etc]

You might say the web is made up of taxonomies with user selected boundaries (the user selects the root, then the user has some control over what she chooses to see as braches and what as leaves ;-)

Denny, I don't think Wikipedia or DMOZ count as examples because their entries are only in the low millions, considerably smaller than, say, the Library of Congress. By scaling, I think Kevin means into Web proportions, i.e., low hundreds of billions.

Also, Wikipedia's category system is, arguably closer to being a tagging system, not a top-down taxonomy.

This comment is for Greg McLean, the recruiter. You might want to post the position on TaxoCOP, a Yahoo Taxonomy Community of Pratice.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/

This comment is for Greg McLean, the recruiter. You might want to post the position on TaxoCOP, a Yahoo Taxonomy Community of Practice.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/

Thank you for elevating my question to some level of visibility David!

As an FYI I have not received a single reply pointing me to a taxonomic approach to this issue. I don't think one exists given our current technological constraints.

There are plenty of species still being discovered, & I haven't heard many stories of biologists throwing up their hands in despair.

But the way the question's posed only really allows for one answer. Can taxonomies scale? Sure they can. Can taxonomies deal with a freakin content tsunami and the insane inrush of everything? Er, OK, I guess not.

Sorry, the insane in-rush of information.

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