On Feb 4, 2005, at 7:14 AM, Beryl Graham wrote:
> Thanks for this - how are you getting on with the taxonomies that you
> mentioned?
As I work more closely with the programmers and since this is an open
source project I'm discovering I have to deal with the particular
taxonomy they use, which the programmers tend to want to adopt for art.
At the same time I'm trying to discern if there is such a thing as a
natural taxonomy that has evolved at The Thing over the past 13 years
and compare that with others. To that end I see The Thing as having a
"mind" (or genius, spirit, noosphere, whatever term is trendy these
days) and I've decided that mind is functionally schizophrenic. That
got me thinking about Jon Ippolito's "unrealiable archivist" and other
database projects.
So, as you can probably tell, I haven't gotten very far on the taxonomy.
To make things more complex, I came upon this post on another list:
> So it is now with blogs. There are multiple genres, each with variable
> styles. Blogs are now in fact a medium. The first specific medium to
> have emerged from the World Wide Web http protocol.
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000553.html
> And, I'm curious- would you describe what you are doing as
> conserving as well as collecting?
Both, as well as distribution, contextualization and exhibition. May as
well throw in production and mapping while we're at it. It has some
affinity to the idea of the "virtual museum" Peter Weibel proposed a
few years ago, though he was more concerned with linking discrete
museum collections in a physical location together.
Now I have to figure out what a "use case diagram" is so I can write
something helpful for the programmers (aka not sound dumb).
Rob
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