[georss] using categories for disambiguation

[Pat Cappelaere]

Would you not consider a reference to the YellowPages a reference to a
catalog service?

Pat.


> From: Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:45:34 -0600
> To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [georss] using categories for disambiguation
> 
> 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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>> 
>> 
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