Categorisers are second guessing future trends
Would category testing be in our future? ...
"With more and more users tagging information with their own terms, creating a taxonomic structure to keep up with change is impossible
Clay Shirky, adjunct professor at New York University and internet expert, notes that categorisers need to be both mind readers and fortune tellers.
What a great description of the difficulties they face. The pesky world keeps changing, and at such a pace that it's impossible to keep up. By the time the taxonomies have been carefully re-crafted, the world has moved on again.
On mind reading, the user has to know, guess at or refer to the controlled vocabulary to find what they want. Or some kind of synonym mechanism needs to be in place. Either way, the categorisers are second guessing the users, while not polluting the taxonomy." continued ... (Via Information World Review)
"With more and more users tagging information with their own terms, creating a taxonomic structure to keep up with change is impossible
Clay Shirky, adjunct professor at New York University and internet expert, notes that categorisers need to be both mind readers and fortune tellers.
What a great description of the difficulties they face. The pesky world keeps changing, and at such a pace that it's impossible to keep up. By the time the taxonomies have been carefully re-crafted, the world has moved on again.
On mind reading, the user has to know, guess at or refer to the controlled vocabulary to find what they want. Or some kind of synonym mechanism needs to be in place. Either way, the categorisers are second guessing the users, while not polluting the taxonomy." continued ... (Via Information World Review)
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