On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Scott Wilson wrote:
> 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.
Jeff Young and Thom Hickey at OCLC have been working on something called a
MetaWiki (though I think the branding is about to change) which offers
structured interfaces to structured Wiki content...
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/metawiki/default.htm
I understand that the source code for this stuff will be rreleased in the
fairly near future...
Andy.
> 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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>
Andy
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