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The Obligatory Folksonomy Post

By Michael Feldstein | January 23, 2005

Commenting on a recent post, Beth Harris asks the question of how the tagging system in Flickr could be used for teaching purposes. (Beth, a fellow SUNY-ite working at FIT, is doing some cool stuff with her art history classes using Flickr.) After thinking about it for a bit, I’m afraid the answer I come [...]

Posted in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Folksonomy | Also tagged , , | 16 Comments

Open Access, Furl, and Course Packs

By Michael Feldstein | October 29, 2004

I just took a quick look at The Learner’s Library As far as I can tell, the service breaks down as follows:

LL contains a collection of academic journal articles that have been pre-cleared for copyright.
There’s a search interface to that collection that includes what appears at first glance to be pretty decent natural language search.
Searches [...]

Posted in Build This, Please, Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Also tagged , , | 4 Comments

“Abandoning Taxonomy is the First Ingredient of Success”

By Michael Feldstein | September 6, 2004

From Jon Udell:
Abandoning taxonomy is the first ingredient of success. These systems just use bags of keywords that draw from - and extend - a flat namespace. In other words, you tag an item with a list of existing and/or new keywords. Of course, that idea’s been around for decades, so what’s special about Flickr [...]

Posted in Build This, Please, Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Folksonomy | Also tagged | 2 Comments
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