Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> (While thinking about this, I thought back to an earlier discussion on 
> this list (or possibly wikien-l, can't remember now) about the fact that 
> there are essentially two types of categories: thematic and taxonomic. 
> For the former, the "tag" model of atomic categorization is quite 
> natural, but the latter would fit much more naturally into a strictly 
> hierarchical model.  It might not be an entirely unreasonable idea to 
> formally split the two, perhaps even into separate namespaces, and apply 
> different technical approaches to handling them.)

Doing that would probably help in advancing with the system.


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