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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://connect.iwm-kmrc.de/p15935352/">Keeping Up With Social Tagging</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Video presentation - Thomas Vander Wal presents during the experts workshop 'Social tagging in the knowledge organisation: Perspectives and potentials' on January 21, 2008 - <i>courtesy of wolf n&ouml;ding</i>]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://tomgruber.org/writing/social-meets-semantic-web.htm">Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The Semantic Web is an ecosystem of interaction among computer systems. The social web is an ecosystem of conversation among people. Both are enabled by conventions for layered services and data exchange. Both are driven by human-generated content and made scalable by machine-readable data. Yet there is a popular misconception that the two worlds are alternative, opposing ideologies about how the web ought to be. Folksonomy vs. ontology. Practical vs. formalistic. Humans vs. machines. This is nonsense, and it is time to embrace a unified view. I subscribe to the vision of the Semantic Web as a substrate for collective intelligence. The best shot we have of collective intelligence in our lifetimes is large, distributed human-computer systems. The best way to get there is to harness the 'people power' of the Web with the techniques of the Semantic Web. In this presentation I will show several ways that this can be, and is, happening." (<a href="http://tomgruber.org/">Tom Gruber</a>)]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tbl_calls_for_semweb.php">Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In an hour long interview posted today about the Semantic Web, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are in place to move full steam ahead and realize the potential of a world of structured, machine readable data. Available as a part of the Talking with Talis semantic web podcast series, the interview (...) is summarized on interviewer Paul Miller's new ZDNet blog dedicated to the semantic web." (<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/">ReadWriteWeb</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:date>2008-02-28T09:17:20+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.digital-web.com/articles/better_living_through_taxonomies">Better Living Through Taxonomies</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Large websites and intranets can benefit from improved methods of search and navigation. These include site maps, A-Z indexes, sophisticated search engines, and generally improved navigational design—and playing a potential role in all of these methods is well-planned taxonomy." (<a href="http://www.digital-web.com/about/contributors/heather_hedden">Heather Hedden</a> - <a href="http://www.digital-web.com/">Digital Web Magazine</a>)

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<dc:date>2008-02-06T09:21:08+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-07/neal.html">Folksonomies and Image Tagging: Seeing the Future?</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Folksonomies are one of today's hottest Internet trends. They are but one part of Web 2.0, which, in part, refers to the ability of Internet users to add, change and improve World Wide Web content. A folksonomy is created as users of a website add 'tags' (keywords) to describe items on a website. The users choose their own keywords; few or no restrictions are imposed on their choices. The terms are not chosen from a previously existing controlled vocabulary, a strict taxonomy or any other officially sanctioned method of bibliographic description." (Diane Neal - <a href="http://www.asis.org/index.html">ASIS&T</a> <a href="http://www.asis.org/bulletin.html">Bulletin</a> Oct/Nov 2007)]]></description>

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<dc:date>2007-10-09T12:49:55+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i35_saha.html">Web Ontology and the Semantic Web</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["(...) Tim Berners-Lee's design for the Semantic Web will enable automatic collection and correlation of various parts of information about an object, available at various different web resources. The Semantic Web will save the valuable time we spend on navigating from one web resource to another in order to obtain meaningful information on a particular object. We would be happy then on finding out, for example, our old friend's complete information on giving partial hints on the fly without the need of our manually visiting various related web pages! But wait, there's more." (Goutam Kumar Saha - <a href="http://www.acm.org/">ACM</a> <a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity">Ubiquity</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:date>2007-09-04T17:23:36+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/the-tagging-growth-curve/">The Tagging Growth Curve</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The apparently irregular growth and spread of tagging is simply example of the real nature of how innovations spread. Professional analysts and other meaning makers tend to draw smooth graphs to depict these things. But in reality, natural systems (and the tagging / technology landscape is a legitimate ecosystem) are noisy, cyclical, chaotic, complex, fuzzy, non-linear, and unpredictable. They only appear to follow smooth curves at a high level of abstraction, or a low level of resolution.”  (Joe Lamantia - <a href="http://tagsonomy.com/">tagsonomy</a>)]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/is-tagging-a-disruptive-innovation/">Is Tagging A Disruptive Innovation?</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["For many reasons, tagging has not yet emerged - and may never emerge - as a category of technology investment and activity for businesses." (Joe Lamantia - <a href="http://tagsonomy.com/">tagsonomy</a>)]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000167.php">(Not) Everything is Miscellaneous</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["It's not that I disagree with David about the power and potential of user participation in the creation and organization of knowledge. But, I do believe that the old serves as foundation for and coexists with the new (...)" (<a href="http://semanticstudios.com/about/">Peter Morville</a> - <a href="http://semanticstudios.com/">Semantic Studios</a>)]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/metacrap_and_fl.html">Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory Doctorow</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["David and Cory discuss the advantages and pitfalls of explicit and implicit metadata, tags and the rules governing the use and re-use of content in commerce and culture." (<a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/">David Weinberger</a> - <a href="http://blog.wired.com/business/">Epicenter</a> <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>)]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/measuring-the">Measuring the success of a classification system</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When working with government and large private organizations on complex information systems, project managers and business representatives often demand early-stage validation that the proposed classification system provides the user-friendly solution they are charged with delivering. They also require this validation in a format that will be engaging for senior business stakeholders." (<a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/person/649-iainbarker">Iain Barker</a> - <a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/">Boxes and Arrows</a>)]]></description>

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<dc:date>2007-04-24T15:49:34+01:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/elings/index.html">Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Integrating digital content from libraries, archives and museums represents a persistent challenge. While the history of standards development is rife with examples of cross-community experimentation, in the end, libraries, archives and museums have developed parallel descriptive strategies for cataloguing the materials in their custody. Applying in particular data content standards by material type, and not by community affiliation, could lead to greater data interoperability within the cultural heritage community. In making this argument, the article demystifies metadata by defining and categorizing types of standards, provides a brief historical overview of the rise of descriptive standards in museums, libraries and archives, and considers the current tensions and ambitions in making descriptive practice more economic." (Mary W. Elings and G&uuml;nter Waibel - <a href="http://www.firstmonday.org/index.html">First Monday</a> <a href="http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/index.html">12.3</a>)]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb-07/weinberger.html">Taxonomy Out of the Box</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Taxonomies - at least some of them - reveal the order of things. They increase knowledge by manifesting multifaceted relationships among things. In that light, tagging and folksonomies look like the vulgarizing of knowledge, and well-bred taxonomies turn up their perky noses at the ill-manner interlopers. But the new taxonomizing does more than increase knowledge. It reveals meaning." (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weinberger">David Weinberger</a> - <a href="http://www.asis.org/index.html">ASIS&amp;T</a> <a href="http://www.asis.org/bulletin.html">Bulletin</a> Feb/Mar 2007) - <i>courtesy of theiainstitute</i>]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/02/when-tags-works-and-when-they-dont.php">When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["This is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interested in making tagging work." (<a href="http://www.librarything.com/thingology/">Thingology</a> - <a href="http://www.librarything.com/">LibraryThing</a>) - <i>courtesy of petermorville</i>]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/201/report_display.asp">Pew Internet Report on Tagging</a>]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Just as the internet allows users to create and share their own media, it is also enabling them to organize digital material their own way, rather than relying on pre-existing formats of classifying information. A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content. The report features an interview with David Weinberger, a prominent blogger and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society." (<a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/index.asp">Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project</a>) - <i>courtesy of tagsonomy</i>]]></description>

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