Tagging vs folksonomy vs categorisation
Created by Catherine Howell (University of Cambridge) on October 03, 2005
Just discovered (via Academic Commons): You're It! A blog on tagging.
This pro-tagging manifesto caught my attention. It takes a line that is, at first view, not entirely dissimilar to the "wisdom of crowds" argument currently circulating in ICT / KM circles.
This particular post is one energetic volley in an ongoing debate. Definitely worth a read:
This pro-tagging manifesto caught my attention. It takes a line that is, at first view, not entirely dissimilar to the "wisdom of crowds" argument currently circulating in ICT / KM circles.
This particular post is one energetic volley in an ongoing debate. Definitely worth a read:
tagging is already better fit for discovering and reflecting both personal and group mental models; does a better job of handling ambiguous or dynamic cases; provides judgment-related context (’funny’, ‘cool’); allows better mapping to communities of the like-minded; and is, on top of all of that, cheap cheap cheap. These advantages are driving adoption, and the early adopters are now suffering from the lack of well-developed tools, but new inventions will arise to service those users, and this will lead to more later-but-still-early adopters, sharpening the problems further but with a bigger user base, thus increasing the incentive for still more improvement, lather, rinse, repeat.
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