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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 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> 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." >> >> - SOp deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing: > http://www.fontys.nl/disclaimer > The above disclaimer applies to this e-mail message. >