[Sigia-l] tagging versus taxonomy

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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

And hence the current IA ambivalence towards tagging and folksonomy in
general then: if I tag something as "cat," do I mean the animal, the
lens type, the instrument of punishment or the contraction of the name
"Catherine?" 

Or do you mean "tag" as in document markup? In which case I take all
that back.

Oh, the irony ;-)

Jonathan


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