so what is going on……

today i am on the hunt of all things taxonomy

i have built taxonomies before. i have built highly structured ones and i have built ones that go with the business model of the organization and i feel that each are relevant for there own purpose.

came across an interesting article the other day in KM World: Folksonomy folktales

i have had several debates with myself on this very subject, txonomy and folksonomy

in the library world many librarians thing folksonomy is dead, just another way to categorize that obviously is not as good as the library of congress subject headings….but the little librarian in me does not agree

let me step back a minute and not totally recite my resume but give a bit of background info…..currently i am a usability engineer with a very long standing record of working in libraries (primarily digital libraries) i am a visual artist with a very strong opinion on how things work and if they don’t work well then i will make it clear as to how it could work better

i have been like this since i was a kid so it was natural to go into user interface design so here i am a user interface designer reading KM world and designing taxonomies.

so here i am designing a taxonomy for a content rich site that is so so super specialized that i am not sure there is any other way of doing this then creating a customized unstructured taxonomy and using folksonomy to help with the search engine optimization

i leave you all with no visuals today…..but i do ask for opinions