[georss] using categories for disambiguation

[Sean Gillies]

An Atom scheme is not a catalog service.

Sean

Pat Cappelaere wrote:
> 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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