If you’re not sure what’s the difference between a controlled vocabulary, a taxonomy and a thesaurus, this blog article is quite good at clarifying the above concepts and more.
What’s not covered are tags and folksonomy.
Archive for October, 2007
Fun with Google’s Image Labeler
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Interesting article on Boing Boing about Google image labeler and how to entice the mass into a dull job by the means of a game challenge…
It’s a clever way to do retrospective tagging. Organizations with large archives of data are likely to do more of this in order to open access to their “long tail”.
In a non-digital world, an analogy could be the way the BBC organized national “treasure hunts” to retrieve long missing archive material, except they were one-offs.
Google has found a way to harness the power of the mass (and no, this has nothing to do with what happens to humans in the Matrix trilogy, although …)