[Sigia-l] tagging versus taxonomy

[Alexander Johannesen]

On 10/16/06, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tagging is not only about using lonly tags, but also about using them
> in conjunction - that is, it defines a simple language for defining
> sets of objects and using it with n tags you can describe no less than
> 2^n (2 to the power of n) different properties.

Why?

> Since human brain can remember only a finite set of categories this is
> not a useless thing.

It really is more about establishing patterns over time, and I think
the further away from basic category you get, the harder the pattern
is to establish.

> Is that a new angle or I am reinventing the weel with this argument?

Not sure what it is, but my 5cents in terms of the difficulties
between taxonomies (and beware; people use many different definitions)
and tagging (again; do you mean folksonomies, tagsonomies, or
something even less compound?) is really dependant on a) who's
tagging, and b) what the aim of it is. One can use these tools for
many different things, and the combination of a and b together with
the goals of the excercise is somewhat of a hard task to get right.


regards,

Alex
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