TopicMaps in Oslo
Posted in conference coverage, folksonomy, metadata, tagging, taxonomy on March 17th, 2008 4 Comments »
April 2-4, I’m going to TopicMaps, a conference that may be particularly interesting (to people who are particularly interested in it, of course):
The basic idea is simple: the organizing principle of information should not be where it lives or how it was created, but what it is about. Organize information by subject and it will be easier to integrate, reuse and share – and (not least) easier for users to find. The increased awareness of the importance of metadata and ontologies, the popularity of tagging, and a growing interest in semantic interoperability are part and parcel of the new trend towards subject-centric computing.
The organizers have let it be known that there’s still room… [Tags: conferences topicmaps oslo everything_is_miscellaneous]
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