Comments on: Is there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working? http://laughingmeme.org/2007/01/30/is-there-any-living-breathing-example-of-a-taxonomic-approach-working/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: kellan http://laughingmeme.org/2007/01/30/is-there-any-living-breathing-example-of-a-taxonomic-approach-working/comment-page-1/#comment-4717 kellan Sat, 03 Feb 2007 06:40:50 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/2007/01/30/is-there-any-living-breathing-example-of-a-taxonomic-approach-working/#comment-4717 <p>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 :)</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Neither one lend themselves to casual participation. (is that a feature or a bug I wonder?)</p> 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?)

]]> By: Jesse http://laughingmeme.org/2007/01/30/is-there-any-living-breathing-example-of-a-taxonomic-approach-working/comment-page-1/#comment-3710 Jesse Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:47:05 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/2007/01/30/is-there-any-living-breathing-example-of-a-taxonomic-approach-working/#comment-3710 <p>Dewey Decimal? The taxonomy of living things (Phylum, Class, Order ...)?</p> Dewey Decimal? The taxonomy of living things (Phylum, Class, Order …)?

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