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  • From: Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>
  • To: PCPLANTDB <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [pcplantdb] Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
  • Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:57:48 +0000

Interesing article on mentioned in slashdot
about grassroots calsification schemes.
http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html

It looks at the difference between central controlled vocabularies
and more anarchic systems.

Well worth a read.

Rich

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