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blueslugs.com ▬ Blog Archive ▬ tag(1): del.icio.us-style file tagging
by thauser & 7 others
''… In this post, I propose a simple, portable design, contrast my design choices against some other possibilities, and then provide an initial implementation of that design in Perl. …''
NBS: Metadata Glossary
by fastclemmy & 3 others (via)
In an attempt to summarize the relationship among various metadata formats and how they relate to building Internet systems I wrote a glossary. I then ordered and tied the terms together with a bit of narrative to explain the relationships among the terms
IT Conversations: Clay Shirky - Ontology is Overrated
by wilsonshum & 3 others
Clay Shirky argues that tagging makes more sense than taxonomy, nicely presented
Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
by fredbird & 22 others
This 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.
i d e a n t: A del.icio.us study
by rjjjsp & 18 others
Working 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
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