[Sigia-l] tagging versus taxonomy

[Ziya Oz]

Alexander Johannesen:

> a tag is just one tag

Well, like everything else in life, neither tags nor taxonomies live in a
contextual vacuum. The minute I tag something as, say, "#FF0000," do I not
also implicitly tag it as a "color"? Further:

#FF0000
    color
        HTML color name
            red
                web safe color

For a web designer, doesn't a single six-digit alpha-numeric tag (#FF0000)
already come with its own inherent/implicit tag structure?

Whereas, say, another RGB value captured as a tag might imply a whole set of
other implicit connotations/tags in another industry like fashion.

IOW, tags usually stand in abstraction only in our minds, but immediately
compounded by the context in any given usage environment, no?

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Ziya

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