[Sigia-l] OT: Library Thing

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Alexander Johannesen:

> I'd have to say 'no', to tell the truth; I've worked so much with a)
> librarians cataloging things, b) normal people tagging things, and c)
> machines indexing things, and even if I'd liked a) and / or b) to win,
> c) beats them every time because they're cheaper. Nothing beats cheap,
> it looks like.

Yes, but while c) is cheap, b) is free.

We haven't seen *at all* yet what b) can accomplish. We are at the very
beginning of the curve here. Aggregation and faceting of distributed tagging
is a domain yet to be deeply exploited. I'd remain open-minded on this one.

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Ziya

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