[Sigia-l] tagging versus taxonomy

[Seth Earley]

Nice exploration of the topic Linda.  I am going to forward this to the
taxonomy community of practice (TaxoCoP at yahoogroups.com) list... 

Seth
	
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Hello,

I'm delurking (briefly, I promise!), so I'd better introduce myself, I
suppose. I'm an ancient-ish librarian, trained in pre-computer days, now
working as a book indexer.


At 08:49 16/10/2006 +0200, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
>I am talking about fundamental teoretical differences between those two 
>models of classifying thigs and their consequences in the cognitive 
>process of both classifying and finding something previously 
>classified.  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.

I think that what you're asking about is what's called, in librarians'
jargon, 'pre-coordinate'and 'post-coordinate' indexing. 
If I'm right, then I fear you are indeed reinventing the wheel!