April 2005
IT Conversations: Clay Shirky - Ontology is Overrated
by wilsonshum & 3 othersClay Shirky argues that tagging makes more sense than taxonomy, nicely presented
David Galbraith - Tagging and the Semantic Web
by smudie & 2 othersTagging, i.e. on-the-fly user generated keyword categorization looks like it is becoming the standard way to categorize weblog content, replacing things like fixed pre-set categories.
March 2005
Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
by fredbird & 22 othersThis paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.
Microformats could describe online news intelligently | Holovaty.com
by fastclemmy & 2 othersRéflexions sur les metadonnées et le journalisme en ligne.
February 2005
i d e a n t: A del.icio.us study
by rjjjsp & 18 othersWorking within the constraints of a very limited data sample, this study attempts to identify some of the information management and meaning construction practices of an online distributed classification (a.k.a. free tagging or ethnoclassification) commun
GeoURL (2.0)
by smudie & 24 others (via)"The new site will be opened up to the public on or around Friday, February 18th, 2005" — Welcome back!
January 2005
Folksonomies
by marc-o & 22 othersCooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata