A wiki is an interesting approach to collaboratively developing
taxonomies, but you're right, its not an easy way to acquire a binding
of the taxonomy for use.
On 28 Jun 2005, at 15:42, Pierre Gorissen wrote:
> I would be interested in hearing if you metadata experts think this is
> a good approach.
> I was just posting about this on my blog
> (http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/item/2005/6/28/levende-taxonomie-n)
> when Scott mailed this. The post is in Dutch, so most of you won't be
> able to understand it but summarised the remarks I make are:
> * why have living taxonomies if we have folksonomy/tags? Will the
> people that want taxonomies also want to use a possibly often changing
> taxonomy?
> * wikis are not good to store structured information, the current
> format means I have to cut and paste each individual taxonomy-value.
> Use of RSS (possibly with the new proposed Simple List Extensions
> Specification) or VDEX as a format to provide the taxonomies would
> have made this (much) easier.
>
> Pierre Gorissen
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Scott Wilson
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>> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:14 AM
>> Subject: Living Taxonomy
>>
>> FYI:
>>
>> http://livingtaxonomy.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> "The Living Taxonomy Project is a collaborative effort aimed at
>> creating a global set of open source, standards-based taxonomies for
>> education. The purpose of these taxonomies will be to provide a free
>> cataloging structure for the collection and sharing of education
>> materials around the world."
>>
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