Comments on: Stella Dextre Clarke & Alan Gilchrist about the “Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web” http://blog.semantic-web.at/2010/06/21/stella-dextre-clarke-alan-gilchrist-about-the-future-of-knowledge-organization-on-the-web/ Open World Assumptions Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: graham http://blog.semantic-web.at/2010/06/21/stella-dextre-clarke-alan-gilchrist-about-the-future-of-knowledge-organization-on-the-web/#comment-5625 graham Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:00:30 +0000 http://blog.semantic-web.at/?p=1625#comment-5625 #2 - What's this then Min? As to updating? How often would you like to see it updated? The clue is a taxonomy is a controlled vocabulary. Changing it regularly would defeat the object. Don't like where something is classified - well, you can't please everyone all the time and you should be able to tag it to more than one place in the taxonomy - or add additional "folksonomy" tags - IPSV gives a standard - it is mandatory (as per the COI) on all govt. websites. I know - I build them. #2 – What’s this then Min?

As to updating? How often would you like to see it updated? The clue is a taxonomy is a controlled vocabulary. Changing it regularly would defeat the object. Don’t like where something is classified – well, you can’t please everyone all the time and you should be able to tag it to more than one place in the taxonomy – or add additional “folksonomy” tags – IPSV gives a standard – it is mandatory (as per the COI) on all govt. websites. I know – I build them.

]]> By: Min Smith http://blog.semantic-web.at/2010/06/21/stella-dextre-clarke-alan-gilchrist-about-the-future-of-knowledge-organization-on-the-web/#comment-4648 Min Smith Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:28:09 +0000 http://blog.semantic-web.at/?p=1625#comment-4648 To win a prize for merging for creating a vocabulary - the IPSV - that no one in the UK public sector uses, or ever used, or has heard of, hasn't been updated for 4 years (http://doc.esd.org.uk/IPSV/2.00.html) , which classifies bonfires under Health and Safety at Work (Borges where are you now?), and which isn't used by the Government's main website (http://www.direct.gov.uk) - a truly awesome achievement! To win a prize for merging for creating a vocabulary – the IPSV – that no one in the UK public sector uses, or ever used, or has heard of, hasn’t been updated for 4 years (http://doc.esd.org.uk/IPSV/2.00.html) , which classifies bonfires under Health and Safety at Work (Borges where are you now?), and which isn’t used by the Government’s main website (http://www.direct.gov.uk) – a truly awesome achievement!

]]> By: Meet us at “Linked Data: The Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web” (ISKO UK) - PoolParty http://blog.semantic-web.at/2010/06/21/stella-dextre-clarke-alan-gilchrist-about-the-future-of-knowledge-organization-on-the-web/#comment-4597 Meet us at “Linked Data: The Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web” (ISKO UK) - PoolParty Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:15:38 +0000 http://blog.semantic-web.at/?p=1625#comment-4597 [...] interview with Alan Gilchrist and Stella Dextre Clarke – two internationally recognised experts in the field of knowledge organization – about [...] [...] interview with Alan Gilchrist and Stella Dextre Clarke – two internationally recognised experts in the field of knowledge organization – about [...]

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