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  • From: Bear K <bear@ursine-design.com>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:46:40 -0800

Hi Rich,

Yeah, I read the Many-2-Many blog and that concept just came up. I was actually wondering how a loose tagging system for plants would work, and whether it would be effective. It might not be the best for the primary info on a plant, but might make an interesting addition to make browsing more interesting (a la del.ico.us). There'd have to be a reason for people to use it and add tags, something they get back in return to make it very effective.

Cheers,
Bear

On Tuesday, January 4, 2005, at 08:57 AM, Richard Morris wrote:

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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