[Sigia-l] tagging versus taxonomy

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

Hmm - reading the online discussions I somehow associated taxonomy
with the structure of a tree (like the taxonomy of livin creatures
with kingdoms, species, races etc).  And what I was talking about was
the amount of the leave nodes in those trees - in a tree you need
names for all of them.  Was I mistaken?

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Zbyszek

On 10/16/06, Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/06, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > With tags you can specify compound
> > terms like 'tag1 and tag2 and tag3' while with taxonomy, as I
> > understand it, you would need a separate name for each of those
> > terms.  In other words  taxonomy is a language where you need a
> > word for everything while tags are words plus some rules about
> > how to combine them.
>
> Hmm, a taxonomy is in its basic form really a way to get to semantic
> meaning by ways of the structure of the taxa. Kant is big on
> taxonomies, and it has been used as a system for very long because it
> looks so much like the truth that we mistake for the truth. However,
> people also talk about taxonomies that have cross-references,
> cross-meaning and cross-paths, making them semantic networks more than
> the basic structure it started off as.
>
> Now, with tags and such we can also say similar things. Sure, you're
> right that a tag is just one tag, and there is "something" between
> those tags. Is there a difference between a taxonomy and tags with
> structural rules? Not really. :)
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Alex
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Zbigniew Lukasiak
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