Results tagged “categorization” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

Patrick Lambe has a great piece, A Brief History of Arrangement, that describes the fields of taxonomy, classification, and categorization, and the art of arrangement were quite similar and how they diverged.

I've just learned that my blog is being studied in group assignment on knowledge taxonomies in a class at McGill. One of the students just contacted me with some questions about my process. This is my response.

Some incomplete thinking: What happens to a topic-centric space as the interest of the participants shifts? Does this relate to categorization and folksonomy?

Interesting articles from Clay Shirky and David Weinberger on categorization and tagging. The articles have been out for a couple months, but it's useful to look at them in light of hearing the ideas bantered around.