[Esip-preserve] Folksonomies

[Tom Moritz]

Hi Bruce --
Been considering your recent messages and thought I'd send along a draft
 article (we never submitted it for publ...) from a few years ago when
I was still at AMNH in NY...

We were grappling with the problem of how to render specialist vocabularies
interoperable...  So (attached) for what it's worth... Perhap, food for
thought at least...?

UMLS (NLM) is still to my understanding one of the most highly developed
and refined ontology projects...

(In the mid 90's, I compiled the IUCN "Conservation Thesaurus"  and sought
to integrate it -- at a high level -- with a series of other thesauruses --
including
UNBIS (the United Nations) , the OECD Macrothesaurus and INFOTERRA... (UNEP)
-- this was just an early experimental effort...

Tom

*Tom Moritz
1968 1/2 South Shenandoah Street,
Los Angeles, California 90034-1208  USA
+1 310 963 0199 (cell) [GMT -8]
tommoritz (Skype)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tmoritz*

“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει” (Everything flows, nothing stands still.) --*
Heraclitus *
"It is . . . easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague." --
C.S. Peirce
*"Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."  ("One must imagine Sisyphus happy.")
-- Camus
*

     Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail




On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>wrote:

> The new issue of Computer has an article by Sen, S. and Riedl, J.
> on Folksonomy Formation that is rather interesting.  They mention
> an web blog http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
> that's an opinion piece on ontologies versus user-based search
> mechanisms.  Has anybody else picked up on this thread of
> conversation?
>
> Bruce B.
> _______________________________________________
> Esip-preserve mailing list
> Esip-preserve at lists.esipfed.org
> http://www.lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-preserve
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.lists.esipfed.org/pipermail/esip-preserve/attachments/20110523/14c92281/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: tree.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 278 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.lists.esipfed.org/pipermail/esip-preserve/attachments/20110523/14c92281/attachment-0001.gif>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: AMIA05_Bugs_submit.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 185344 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.lists.esipfed.org/pipermail/esip-preserve/attachments/20110523/14c92281/attachment-0001.doc>