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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
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Required reading for anyone starting to think about developing a taxonomy...
"Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong. In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies."