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January 30, 2007
Is there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working?.Scaling to keep-up with the hyper-efficiency we see in peer-production systems? Anyone?
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(Aside, folksonomy, hierarchy, ia, information, lazyweb, social, tagging, taxonomy, web2.0)
January 31st, 2007 at 1:47 am
Dewey Decimal? The taxonomy of living things (Phylum, Class, Order …)?
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Jesse those both seem to be good examples of old style taxonomies: maintained by experts, slowly accreting, contended over as a limited resource. Having to send your photos or blog posts away to the Library of Congress to find out how they should be tagged sounds like a failure case
Alternately I suppose that you could argue that production of science and naming rather then being seen as an unwieldly domain of experts is actually an example of a self organizing community of passionate actors producing content in a distributed ad-hoc manner, sync’ed only by a handful of rules.
Neither one lend themselves to casual participation. (is that a feature or a bug I wonder?)