InfoWorld: Collaborative knowledge gardening: August 20, 2004...
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Saved by 23 people (2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-03-02
- Isaacmao on 2008-02-28 - Tags Collaboration , KM
- Ethomsen on 2008-02-02 - Tags folksonomy , furl
- Esanyz on 2008-01-22 - Tags Wissen , Information
- Klauseck on 2007-12-11 - Tags del.icio.us , tagging , wissensmanagement
- Absolutesubzero on 2007-08-13 - Tags delicious , flickr , folksonomies , ia , social software , tagging
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To CTOs, though, I’d say that both are collaborative systems for building a shared database of items, developing a metadata vocabulary about the items, performing metadata-driven queries, and monitoring change in areas of interest. In the case of Flickr, an item is a photo; in the case of del.icio.us, it’s a URL. But the same methods could apply to any of the shared digital artifacts that we create, find, and use in the course of our daily work.
Conventional wisdom holds that people will never assign metadata tags to content. It just isn’t on the path of least resistance, the story goes, and those few who do step off the path succeed only in creating unwieldy taxonomies. (Do you file the revised XML Schema specification under xml/specifications or specifications/xml? We can never agree, and many good minds are sacrificed in the vain attempt.) Yet somehow, users of Flickr and del.icio.us do routinely tag content, and those tags open new dimensions of navigation and search. It’s worth pondering how and why this works.
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