Taxonomy Out of the Box
“Taxonomies – at least some of them – reveal the order of things. They increase knowledge by manifesting multifaceted relationships among things. In that light, tagging and folksonomies look like the vulgarizing of knowledge, and well-bred taxonomies turn up their perky noses at the ill-manner interlopers. But the new taxonomizing does more than increase knowledge. It reveals meaning.” (David Weinberger – ASIS&T Bulletin Feb/Mar 2007) – courtesy of theiainstitute