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SciFiGuy - Tue, 2008-06-10 16:44
Hi. Does anyone know where I can find free (open source) taxonomies that I could use for an online newspaper?
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What do you mean?
Taxonomies for what purpose?
It's sort of something that
It's sort of something that will vary from site to site, but even so, a taxonomy -- a group of categories -- really isn't something that's typically copyrighted. Here, here's one for free:
Arts, Opinion, Politics, Local News, World News, Finance, Sports, Classifieds.
Customize to taste.
Taxonomies
You can try here:
http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/
Wow. How bizarre. I never
Wow. How bizarre. I never thought of a taxonomy as something one would buy, sell, license, or market for a drupal site. I suppose for very specific purposes (i.e. specialized reference information) it has a certain logic (though a logic I find a bit disturbing). News organizations could benefit from using consistent terms, but I think the benefits of having such consistency are outweighed by the disadvantages of centralized commercial control. But then maybe I am a wild-eyed radical...
Profound question
I spent years in my youth getting used to the Dewey Decimal System. Later I found a "Sears" index which clarified that system greatly. LoC never had any intuitive charm (how many LoC classifications can you remember).
The original Roget (1852) has some intellectual rigor. Modern versions have been hammered flat destroying the heritage of Leibniz and Aristotle.
When I moved my site to Drupal, I had almost 1000 unclassified articles. Few have made it into the new attempts at Taxonomy.
Millions of ad hoc taxonomies have evolved, E.G. wikipedia, archive.org, google groups, yahoo, bbc etc.
My observations of folksonomies are that they usually lead to unorganized failures to group related articles.
Search engines cater to the atomic view with notable exceptions like Clusty (and NorthenLight.com).
Concept mapping offers some hope of finding clusters semi-automatically (refining of folksonomies in a way). Word associations will point to a tree structure of terms. KWIC is hard to reduce. Wiki mapping doesn't appear to converge.
Virtue will accrue to those who make sense of this (as taxonomywarehouse suggests).