Re: Digest Number 209

I think this article says a lot about the state of
ontology/classification/taxonomy today in light of the
evolution of Internet collab groups:

http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

MJBarczak

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>       1. Ontology vs. taxonomy
>            From: "IvyGrad91" <[email protected]>
>       2. Re: Ontology vs. taxonomy
>            From: "David Riecks" <[email protected]>
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>    Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:37:23 -0000
>    From: "IvyGrad91" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Ontology vs. taxonomy
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> Can we please have a discussion thread about the
> meaning and 
> application of taxonomies and ontologies?
> 
> As is normal in the course of discussion, the
> terminology can become 
> muddy.
> 
> Many thanks,
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> MJB Indexing Service
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>    Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:24:14 -0400
>    From: "David Riecks" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Ontology vs. taxonomy
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> 
> 
> > Can we please have a discussion thread about the
> meaning and 
> > application of taxonomies and ontologies?
> > 
> > As is normal in the course of discussion, the
> terminology can become 
> > muddy.
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > MJB Indexing Service
> 
> MJB:
> 
> I've gathered a number of articles on my controlled
> vocabulary website 
> that attempt to tackle this subject. 
> 
> http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/links.html
> 
> You might want to check the ones labeled, "Woody
> Pidcock gives his 
> explantion about the differences between, 'a
> vocabulary, a taxonomy, a 
> thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model.'"
> 
> He seems to believe that an ontology can take
> several forms, of which 
> a controlled vocabulary would be one subset. 
> 
> The Boxes and Arrows site has a good article about
> Controlled 
> Vocabularies and ontologies are mentioned. See the
> article at:
>
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/what_is_a_controlled_vocabulary.
> php
>  (watch out for the line returns)
> 
> And be sure to check out the follow up discussions
> at:
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http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/what_is_a_controlled_vocabulary.
> php?page=discuss
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> David
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> Catalog is now 
> available. 
>
http://controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/cvkc_order.html
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