Metadata without tears
Peter Merholz, AKA peterme, has an excellent article at Adaptive Path called Metadata for the Masses:
But what if we could somehow peek inside our users’ thought processes to figure out how they view the world? One way to do that is through ethnoclassification [1] — how people classify and categorize the world around them.
He takes del.icio.us and Flickr as examples of “ethnoclassification” (a phrase he tracks back to Susan Leigh Star),. (I am enamored of the branch of ethnoclassification on exhibit at del.icio.us if only because people have started calling it “folksonomy.”) He looks at the benefits. Then he addresses the problems, and suggests the paths out of the forest we’re making for ourselves.
Jay Fienberg points us also to Jon Udell’s article on “collaborative knowledge gardening.” I’ve also been looking at some related issues (e.g., here, here, here, here and here), but Peter has the advantage of knowing what he’s talking about.
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Metadata und wie wir sie nutzen könnten
Peter Merholz schreibt über Metadata for the Masses und versucht, Ordnung in das vermeintliche Chaos zu bringen, das entsteht, wenn jeder fröhlich drauflostaggt, also Din…
It’s actually Peter Merholz, not Mead.
Liz, of course it is. Thanks for the correction. Peter, sorry to be such a putz when it comes to names, facts, figures, reality…
Get down and get taggy
I’m going to quote David’s whole post because it has a bunch of good links.David WeinbergerMetadata without tears: Peter Merholz, AKA peterme, has an excellent article at Adaptive Path called Metadata for the Masses: But what if we could somehow…
More on tagging
Interesting; on the heels of my post yesterday about filing vs. tagging comes Joi Ito, pointing toward a post by David Weinberger that seems to resonate: Peter Merholz, AKA peterme, has an excellent article at Adaptive Path called Metadata…
Metadatos para las Masas
Traducción del artículo “Metadata for the Masses” publicado por Peter Merholz en Adaptative Path.