That's true that even coming up with the possible tags can be
controversial. I sometimes describe smells in terms of colors ("This smells
bluish"), which completely confuses my wife.
It's trivial for computers to manage the tags. And it's trivial for humans
to spontaneously add a million tags as t
This is really an interesting topic to me personally because I spent a year
at deviantART working on a faceted ontology to classify art works by facets
such as Form, Medium, Technique and Genre. It was a really hard technical
problem to solve and we never really finished that work before deviantART
Back in 1990, things were almost always put in hierarchical taxonomies. The
idea of "tags" and non-hierarchical categories wasn't really a thing,
partly due to limitations of technology. The Dewey Decimal System (for
books) and biological taxonomies ruled the day. And it was really
frustrating, bec
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/the-psychology-of-genre.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=2
Favorite quotes from the article:
"This “categorical perception,” as it’s called, is not an innocent process:
