On pegging down taxonomy

Tonight I watched The Collectors on ABC TV - good to have the show back in 2008. One of the featured collections was the peg collection of Mike Bradley. Yes, that’s right, a collection of clothes pegs!
There were some really interesting moments (yes, truly) in this segment on pegs. Firstly, Mike Bradley was terrific at telling [...]

On tagging, the grey side

My last two posts have been about tagging based on my presentation last week at the conference in Sydney, ”Enhancing search and retrieval capabilities and performance”.
I want to look at some of the perceived disadvantages of tagging that I briefly mentioned in my presentation:

Lack of specificity - refers to the fact that an item can have [...]

On tagging (2)

I previously made some comments about tagging. I believe tagging has its place as does controlled vocabularies. John Udell’s blog post yesterday on tagging and foldering made the point that: “On the desktop as well as on the web, we’re in the midst of a long transition from container-based to query-based storage and retrieval”.
In container-based storage one [...]

On tagging

I have been giving some attention of late to tagging, partly because of some research I am doing for university, and partly in response to a challenge Matt Moore gave me a while back to start putting some of my photos up on Flickr.
A key feature of Flickr is tagging, but tagging has become much more [...]

On taxonomies

Patrick Lambe presented this evening on taxonomies at the NSW KM Forum in Sydney - not sure if the slides will be available or not (I will need to check later with Patrick or James).
Firstly, Patrick should be congratulated for making a potentially dry topic most interesting and informative. Of note was Patrick’s “Map of Findability” [...]