tagging versus taxonomy

> > a tag is just one tag
>
> Well, like everything else in life, neither tags nor
taxonomies live in a
> contextual vacuum. The minute I tag something as, say,
"#FF0000," do I not
> also implicitly tag it as a "color"? Further:
>
> #FF0000
>     color
>         HTML color name
>             red
>                 web safe color
>
> For a web designer, doesn't a single six-digit
alpha-numeric tag (#FF0000)
> already come with its own inherent/implicit tag
structure?
>
> Whereas, say, another RGB value captured as a tag might
imply a whole set of
> other implicit connotations/tags in another industry
like fashion.
>
> IOW, tags usually stand in abstraction only in our
minds, but immediately
> compounded by the context in any given usage
environment, no?
>


Indeed.  And there exist other connecting points.  The BBC
actually
takes the step of harvesting tags into a formalized CV (From
Louis
Rosenfeld's blog):

"A compromise solution (known as the metadata
threshold) allows for
free-text tagging that is absorbed into formal CVs when
enough content
is tagged with that term. The solution aims to combine cheap
and
responsive tagging with unambiguous aggregation power."

http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000330.html


A taxonomy that flexibly absorbs emergent trends in
classification,
how lovely.  It's representative democracy for
folksonomistas.

-Chad
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Chad Fennell ha scritto:
> 
> Indeed.  And there exist other connecting points.  The
BBC actually
> takes the step of harvesting tags into a formalized CV
(From Louis
> Rosenfeld's blog):
> 

Hi,
also FaceTag project aims to blend facets and folksonomy in
order to go 
beyond the limits of both traditional taxonomies and
folksonomies.

The project prototype has been presented at EuroIA 2006,
see:
* 
<http://www.euroia.org/sessions/integrating_b
ottom_up_and_top_down_classification_in_a_social_tagging_sys
tem_the_facetag.html>
* <http:/
/lucarosati.it/download/facetag.pdf>.

Cheers,
Luca
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Chad Fennell ha scritto:
 >
 > Indeed.  And there exist other connecting points.  The
BBC actually
 > takes the step of harvesting tags into a formalized CV
(From Louis
 > Rosenfeld's blog):
 >

Hi,
also FaceTag project aims to blend facets and folksonomy in
order to go 
beyond the limits of both traditional taxonomies and
folksonomies.

The project prototype has been presented at EuroIA 2006,
see:
* 
<http://www.euroia.org/sessions/integrating_b
ottom_up_and_top_down_classification_in_a_social_tagging_sys
tem_the_facetag.html>
* <http:/
/lucarosati.it/download/facetag.pdf>.

Cheers,
Luca
-- 

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