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Sunday, July 14, 2002Marcia J. Bates: After the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time. "Long-term solutions to the problems of indexing the Web will probably involve multiple overlapping methods of classifying and indexing knowledge, so that people coming from every possible angle can find their way to resources that work best for them. Instead of calling it an "ontology," label the system of description what it really is - a classification, thesaurus, set of concept clusters, or whatever." [boingboing] How about calling it taxonomy instead of ontology?
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Steve Pepper: The TAO of Topic Maps. "The generality and expressive power of the topic map model bring with it other advantages that go far beyond those traditionally associated with indexes. The close similarity to semantic nets gives an idea of how topic maps, even without any occurrences connecting them to an information pool, can become valuable resources in their own right. This in turn opens up new business opportunities for creating and selling “portable topic maps” that can be overlaid on multiple information pools. For traditional commercial publishers, producing well-crafted topic maps could be a new way of leveraging their existing knowledge and experience and combating the threat to their existence posed by the vast amounts of information now available for free." [Curiouser and curiouser!] Posted to klogs, xml @ 10:47:15 PM ( comments)
Richard Florida
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
From his recent interview: Be Creative Or Die. "My theory uses the three T's: technology, talent and tolerance. You need to have a strong technology base, such as a research university and investment in technology. That alone is a necessary but not in itself sufficient condition. Second, you need to be a place that attracts and retains talent, that has the lifestyle options, the excitement, the energy, the stimulation, that talented, creative people need. And thirdly, you need to be tolerant of diversity so you can attract all sorts of people -- foreign-born people, immigrants, woman as well as men, gays as well as straights, people who look different and have different appearances." [Gurteen Knowledge-Log] Posted to books, klogs @ 3:57:01 PM ( comments)
Updated 8/22/2002; 5:29:08 PM
