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May 16, 2005
Ontologies: Either Overrated or UnderappreciatedClay Shirky's Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags is definitely worth reading. The periodic table makes an excellent case for a classification system.
One aspect missing from his essay is that of the activity context of tagging. What are you doing... while tagging? Activity while tagging (bookmarking) is why del.icio.us/popular has so many references to How-To links.
So are del.icio.us tags often (implicitly) triples?
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