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May 21st, 2005
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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags
This article looks at ontology’s and compares traditional predefined fixed expert ontology’s with the current web trend of individually defined organically growing tagging of web content post-publishing that is becoming every more popular on the web.
It reviews the traditional methods and looks at how they are based on library’s who’s systems where designed to find a book on a shelf so a thus it had to have only one place in the catalog system.
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Categories: work data, information, Linguistics, meaning, ontology, research, semantics, taxonomy, web
