We are pondering how to manage material inside StudentNet/Interact, our College community support platform. Basically we are experimenting with a primitive form of tagging. It turns out tagging is an issue at the moment. Furl. Del.icio.us. Flickr.
How do you sort, find, classify, manage lots of data, like web pages?
People have been talking about the semantic web.
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” — Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001 www.w3.org/2001/sw/Now, this stuff, I don’t understand. Yet. Its a Labyrinth out there!!
This article emerged from Glen about December last year:
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
“I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong. In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we’re attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we’ve adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies. . . “