August 2007
Beginner
416 pages
12h 16m
English
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FURTHER READING
- "Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead," by Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, Danah Boyd, and Marc Davis (position paper, 2006). www.rawsugar.com/www2006/29.pdf.
This is an excellent overview of how tagging systems work in general. Though unpublished, it provides a solid academic discussion of tagging.
- "What is a Controlled Vocabulary?," by Fred Leise, Karl Fast, Mike Steckel (Boxes and Arrows, Dec. 2002). www.boxesandarrows.com/view/what_is_a_controlled_vocabulary.
This is a well-written primer on otherwise difficult concepts. The discussion is easy-to-follow and uses real world examples. For anyone looking to learn more about controlled vocabularies, this is a great starting point. Also see from the same authors:
"All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies" (Boxes and Arrows, Dec. 2002). www.boxesandarrows.com/view/all_about_facets_controlled_vocabularies.
"Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus" (Boxes and Arrows, Oct. 2003). www.boxesandarrows.com/view/controlled_vocabularies_a_glosso_thesaurus.
- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, by George Lakoff (University of Chicago Press, 1987).
Lakoff comes out swinging hard in this book, challenging the classical theory of classification. Using many examples he shows, for instance, that categories aren't always mutually exclusive with clear boundaries. This is a dense text that isn't that easy to get through. Though fairly old, its arguments are still salient and timely.
- "Usage Patterns of Collaborative Tagging ...
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