[georss] using categories for disambiguation

[Pat Cappelaere]

Gregor,

So if I understand your position, you would be in favor of a "catalog
service" based on a loose folksonomy/taxonomy based on user tags that would
be continuously updated and possibly stored in Wikipedia for instance (which
would be, in essence, similar to the Flickr/deli-ci-ous approach)?

Pat.


> From: "Gregor J. Rothfuss" <gregor at apache.org>
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:02:10 -0500
> To: Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com>, <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [georss] using categories for disambiguation
> 
> Sean Gillies wrote:
>> Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:
>>> Ron Lake wrote:
>>>> I like this idea two  - since the scheme could point to a GML
>>>> application schema or ebRIM classification scheme, in either case
>>>> managed through some sort of registry.
>>>> 
>>>> +1
>>> 
>>> right. is there a list of classification schemes? it would definitely
>>> help to list some recommended schemes, to seed the folksonomy. besides
>>> the GIS ones, i'd like to add some common tagging ones like
>>> del.icio.us, wikipedia and others.
>>> 
>> 
>> There's a scheme/thesaurus maintained by Linda Hill at UCSB that's long
>> been overlooked:
>> 
>> http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer//FeatureTypes/FTT2HTM/FTT2ALPH.TXT
> 
> nice. that looks like it might overlap with categorization schemes
> commonly used by yellow page providers.
> 
> for instance http://www.yellowbook.com/Category/T/
> 
>> For wikipedia, I presume you mean something like
>> 
>> <category term="Creative_Commons" scheme="http://en.wikipedia.org"/>
>> 
>> right? Pop the node name off Wikipedia URLs?
> 
> almost.
> 
> <category term="Creative_Commons" scheme="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"/>
> 
> the nice thing about that scheme is that you can dereference any
> category to learn what it means. plus for many terms, the wikipedia page
> has become the canonical url anyway.
> 
> -gregor
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