Documentation and Training: The User Experience
Session: Democratic Folksonomies: Emulating the Evolution of Language to Create Metadata that Matters
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| Date: | Friday, April 20, 2007 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM |
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| Track: | Content Design and Access |
| Location: | Shaughnessy I |
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By: Brian Webb
on May 01 2007 at 08:53 PM EDT
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Folksonomatic democratization
Mr. Shoesmith delivered a great presentation, forcing his audience to think beyond the presentation being displayed on the screen to his left. His ideas were sound and my only criticism is that he spent too long getting ready to unleash his ideas on the world and not enough time unleashing. He made a few points that made the audience lightbulbs flicker and his humble delivery made it seem more interactive than one-way, even though we were all mesmerized (my interpretation). |
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By: Rahel Anne Bailie
on Apr 26 2007 at 05:02 PM EDT
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Unexpectedly delightful
From the title of the presentation, I thought I knew what was going to be covered, and was attending to be able to argue with the presenter after the session. So I was pleasantly surprised to hear a bit of a new take on folksonomies. Kevin took a well-considered position, and lost a star only for taking a long time "preambling" and then leaving us not enough time to ponder what was at the heart of the matter, which is, after all, what we'd come to discuss. |
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By: Ms Emma Hamer
on Apr 24 2007 at 11:42 PM EDT
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Linking Linguistics to Web 2.0 -- very clever!
Initially, I was very skeptical about the value of folksonomies, as I'm not too optimistic about how articulate the lol, cul8r, and brb crowd is (sure, peg me as an old-fashioned elitist, who values good grammar and correct spelling...). But after listening to Kevin's erudite explanation about linguistics and the natural development of language, and how he sees opportunities for a hybrid system of formal taxonomies combined with folksonomies, I'm not so secure in my smugness. I concede that he has a very good point, and he certainly made it well. |
