[Sigia-l] Bottoms-up tagging

[Andrew Boyd]

Listera wrote:

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>"can you think of any other heirarchies or places where we could encourage
>the tagging of the smallest practical component part and then derive value
>from aggregating up the semantic chain? Could the same thing work for
>non-heirarchic relationships?"
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>
Hi Ziya,

I thought that this was why God had invented topic maps, so that we 
could aggregate non-hierarchical relationships? :)

That an artist might be groupable/findable on:
- genre
- year
- recording company
- gender
- solo/group/former discographic relationships
- length of single (for programming purposes)
- distribution mechanism
- home country
- host country
- and so on... (there is a radio show here in Australia that has a 
weekly Heavy Metal Challenge where the resident guru has to match to 
questions posed by the audience "Name an artist who is related to 
royalty", "Name an artist who was classically trained" and so on...)

Each one of these facets could be hierarchical in itself. I love topic 
maps for this sort of thing - I like to think that Mr Ranganathan was on 
to something :)

Best regards, Andrew

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