Saturday, February 18, 2006

Trying to teach about metadata and cataloging is not the easiest thing in the world especially if the channels of communication/dissemination are limited to online text. Blog Juice for Educational Technology - one of the RSS feed aggregators Joe Schwoebel runs (another one is Syndication for Librarians) - is currently posting a lot about tagging. Making me wonder if I should point out the relevance of this recent "social organization of information" phenomenon to the early history of knowledge organization in our libraries? According to Technorati "a tag is like a subject or category." Thus when people "tag" their posts or their pictures they are indulging in a rudimentary form of classifying, an early step to creating a catalog entry (or metadata record). A relationship that I'm trying to explain using insight from my classification history and models classification research.[Technorati Profile] comment []8:59:53 PM

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