Ontology is Miscellaneous http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/ontologyismiscellaneous A presentation by K.G. Schneider for the Defrag 2007 conference Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:44:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Uber-folksonomies http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/ontologyismiscellaneous/2007/11/04/uber-folksonomies/ http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/ontologyismiscellaneous/2007/11/04/uber-folksonomies/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:10:12 +0000 admin http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/ontologyismiscellaneous/2007/11/04/uber-folksonomies/ Straddle middle ground between taxonomies and folksonomies

Not "better," just one more goodness

"Guide on the side" philosophy

Librarian-built delicious sets, Librarything for Libraries, Librarians' Internet Index

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Spelling, phrases, stemming, and redirects are important

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Ontologies are living organisms; they can build richness and depth over time

Tagging is about discovery, not just description

Data are better than records

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Delicious, Flickr, LibraryThing

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  • LCSH and MeSH: manually-developed, expert-applied subject taxonomies
  • Library classification is much deeper than application of  subject headings
  • BISAC: used by retail bookstores (Onix is the data exchange framework, analogous to MARC)
  • Dewey: one number assigned per book; considered a classification system, though it is used primarily for inventory control (shelf location); requires translation of number to concept; concepts over 100 years old
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