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Possible use case and taxonomy thoughts from a linguistPossible use case and taxonomy thoughts from a linguist
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 8, 2007 - 7:06pm
At the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta I met a person who really wants CMT. (See, even when I'm not working, I'm working!)
It's nice to meet someone enthusiastic about potential!
His name is Sam Boyer, and he's working on the Drupal site Student Trade Justice Campaign.
He also happens to be a linguistics scholar, so I tried to get all his thoughts on taxonomy.
(Short version: Drupal's taxonomy is good, and quite exhaustive for anything one might want to do.)
He talked about definitional creep, the way meanings grow. He hasn't come up with tables to model the mind yet though.
The below is all notes from my talk with Sam Boyer:
Theories about assembling wholes from parts:
Two types, taking Congressional legislation as an example.
- A person in Congress who spent his career becoming an expert on a topic, and is able to take control of the legislation (on the negative perspective, some corporate-shoved bills would also fit this model of one coherent source).
- Laws like the farm bill at 6,000 pages, no one knows everything in it, pieces get criticized, other pieces get put in without hardly anyone noticing.
del.icio.us style tagging
definition of reference
phonology: chart maps every consonant sound humans can make.
The result is a holistic system for defining individual features.
He suggested I may want to separate in Drupal taxonomy tags that speak to structure and tags that speak to the reason for tagging.
(Hmm, I understood that at the time...)
If you think of things in a feature system, every sorting is possible.
Tim Berners-Lee's semantic web is completely useless for this.
At the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta I met a person who really wants CMT. (See, even when I'm not working, I'm working!)
It's nice to meet someone enthusiastic about potential!
His name is Sam Boyer, and he's working on the Drupal site Student Trade Justice Campaign.
He also happens to be a linguistics scholar, so I tried to get all his thoughts on taxonomy.
(Short version: Drupal's taxonomy is good, and quite exhaustive for anything one might want to do.)
He talked about definitional creep, the way meanings grow. He hasn't come up with tables to model the mind yet though.
The below is all notes from my talk with Sam Boyer:
Theories about assembling wholes from parts:
Two types, taking Congressional legislation as an example.
- A person in Congress who spent his career becoming an expert on a topic, and is able to take control of the legislation (on the negative perspective, some corporate-shoved bills would also fit this model of one coherent source).
- Laws like the farm bill at 6,000 pages, no one knows everything in it, pieces get criticized, other pieces get put in without hardly anyone noticing.
del.icio.us style tagging
definition of reference
phonology: chart maps every consonant sound humans can make.
The result is a holistic system for defining individual features.
He suggested I may want to separate in Drupal taxonomy tags that speak to structure and tags that speak to the reason for tagging.
(Hmm, I understood that at the time...)
If you think of things in a feature system, every sorting is possible.
Tim Berners-Lee's semantic web is completely useless for this.
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