[Sigia-l] Roundtable: Briding the gap between folksonomies & taxonomies

[Jean Graef]

The Montague Institute will hold a teleconference roundtable discussion on 
May 17, 2007 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm Eastern time.

The topic of discussion is how to combine the creativity of "social tagging" 
with the rigor of professional document indexing. For more information, see 
http://www.montague.com/roundtable33.html. Those who need some background on 
this topic can attend the pre-roundtable primer "Tagging strategies" via 
teleconference on May 16 (see http://www.montague.com/primer4.htm).

Bradley Allen of Siderean and Rafael Sidi of Elsevier will describe a pilot 
project in which RSS is used to import keywords generated through a social 
tagging application into separately defined taxonomies using either Dublin 
Core or SKOS. Users can then use either the "folksonomy" or the controlled 
vocabulary - or the combination - in a search application.
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Jean Graef
The Montague Institute
www.montague.com
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