Hi everyone! I recently stumbled across some papers about taxonomy/folksonomy (mind you, I'm still a student). I noticed the common oppinion about folksonomies is that they are not reliable because of the synonymy of the language. ( http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html )
So today I find this image on last.fm http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/160/405256.jpg You can find it at this page http://www.last.fm/music/Kooks IxDA has 2 topics on this, quite theoretical and interesting: http://ixda.org/discuss.php?post=9948 and http://ixda.org/discuss.php?post=16143 I'm curious for thoughts about the method last.fm is using to clean up their tags. For now, it does not seem much. And if this is older, the fact that I haven't seen it until now must mean something. How would you "normalize" their tags though? What techniques are being used for this? What is the best practice? (Sorry if this is a bad post, but they say theory is one thing, practice another :) ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
