Folksonomy Sans Frontières

Sinking further into the quicksand of taxonomy/folksonomy of the Net, I can only commend Peter Van Dijck's Guide to Ease to your attention.

Specifically, his series starting with Translating Taxonomies and Categories looks at the problems of classification across languages and cultures.

Much of the debate I have read so far, at other sites, takes it for granted that the tags and sites are in English. And certainly the problems of classification are huge even if we only had one language to deal with. But leaven that with a mix of cultures and languages and -- and I believe my fellow expats would agree -- and.... well, it's not my field, but this layman sees huge scalability problems.

Via friend Gunnar Langemark's quirky blog.

Posted by Allan Jenkins on February 1, 2005 at 12:16 PM in Blogging, Society, Taxonomy of Cyberspace, Technology | Permalink

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