tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2005://1.7563- 2007-12-03T11:54:32Z Comments for Tags and categorization, informal and formal Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2005://1.7563.1528 Comment from jackvinson on 2005-09-19 jackvinson http://blog.jackvinson.com Entertaining that Piers Young points to an article in The Guardian about books that are difficult to categorize for individuals or even large institutions: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1570245,00.html

]]> 2005-09-20T01:59:18Z 2005-09-20T01:59:18Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2005://1.7563.1554 Comment from Anjo on 2005-09-20 Anjo http://anjo.blogs.com/metis/ I follow these discussions with some interest. What I so far failed so see is a relation to the effectiveness of tools and a systematic relation to the needs of individuals and organisations.

Ontologies (and other formal representations) are difficult to develop. Tags, given recent tools, are easy. Is there value in tags being easy to add? Is there value in ontologies being difficult to develop?

It appears, grossly, individuals like tags and organisations like ontologies. Why? Perhaps, tags are personal and ontologies are shared.

In general, it all boils down to language somehow. So, I like both formal and informal categories (and put it into practice as well).

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