Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one
at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is
Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies &
Tags: The rise of user-developed classification." The written version
is a heavily edited concatenation of those two talks.
Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want
to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categoriza...
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