Re: [PORT] new editor's working draft of SKOS Core Vocab Spec

Dan Brickley wrote:

>
> tiago.murakami@itau.com.br wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> There is a problem: Folksonomies are not a Controlled Vocabulary.
>>
>>
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> My view is that they are controlled, just in a different way. On my 
> blog I control my keywords / categories, and arrange them in a basic 
> hierarchy. On flickr, I do the same with my "tags" that I assign to 
> photos. 


Actually I don't; the flickr tags are in a flat space, not explicitly 
hierarchical. But I still control them :)

> In both contexts I do this with some thought for how they relate to 
> the categories used by my friends and colleagues. And in both cases, 
> there are tools to expose these categories in RDF/SKOS. They're 
> certainly not controlled in the classic library sense, but they are 
> organised; sometimes carefully, sometimes carelessly. The weblog case 
> is more clearly "controlled vocabulary" than Flickr (based only on 
> current UI). This is because in my blog, when I post an article via 
> Wordpress, it offers me a list of my existing categories as the 
> options for categorising a post. On Flickr there is a free-text entry 
> field instead. But UIs can change easily: the practice in both systems 
> leads people to use the same category/keyword over again.
>
> Short version: folksonomies are "locally-controlled vocabularies", 
> perhaps?
>
> Dan

Received on Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:27:54 UTC