Friday, October 26, 2007

Taxonomies & the Semantic Web - Call Session

Taxonomies & the Semantic Web from the Taxonomies Communities of Practice - a teleconference by Earley and Associates - October 31, 2007, 1 - 2 pm EST. 50$ US (Slides are sent in advance.)

"Taxonomy is the art of adding value to information by placing it in a useful order that supports both direct searching and serendipitous browsing. Taxidermy is the art of stuffing and arranging the skins of dead animals to create lifelike effects. Taxonomies are a fundamental part of the Semantic Web: machine-readable hierarchies that enable intelligent agents to make logical inferences, thereby making information retrieval an entirely new, more sophisticated experience. However, recent books such as Dave Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous and Eric Abrahamson's A Perfect Mess suggest that taxonomy and taxidermy are closer than we care to acknowledge."

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