- Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -- the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging -- free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints -- seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.
Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source
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- Semblog: Personal Publishing Platform with RSS and FOAF
In this paper we propose a personal publishing system with Semantic Web techniques and Weblog tools. We use a lightweight metadata format like RSS to activate the information flow and its activities. Our system called Semblog platform consists of two t ypes of extended content aggregator and information retrieval/recommendation applications. The system will support not only content publishing process but also information gathering and authoring processes synthetically. Finally we proposed bottom-up pers onal ontology system for richer information distribution.
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- The UVM ecoinformatics collaboratory: GrOWL
GrOWL is the Ecoinformatics Collaboratory's answer to the need of intuitive knowledge visualization and editing tools. GrOWL is open source, written in Java, and it can be downloaded in the download section of this site.
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