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z2005-01-24- Shirky Ontology Taxonomy
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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Aug 9, 2008 8:51 pm |
Clay Shirky on Ontol Ogy vs Taxon Omy. Tags are multi-dimensional, and only look flat, in the way Venn diagrams look flat... Ontology is a good way to organize objects, in other words, but it is a terrible way to organize ideas, and in the period between the invention of the printing press and the invention of the symlink, we were forced to optimize for the storage and retrieval of objects, not ideas... The move here is from graph theory (arrange everything in a tree graph, so that graph traversal becomes the organizing principle) to set theory (sets have members, and the overlap or non-overlap of those memberships becomes the organizing principle.)
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog