Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Taxonomies and Tagging

Posted to 3L Epiphany

The idea of a taxonomy is very interesting: a conceptual framework always helps understanding.
Taxonomy in biology makes sense because most organisms are related to those that came before. The same cannot be said of the law or blogs.
Tagging has more utility, especially for amorphous materials that can be construed in multiple ways. Tagging also allows for a more intuitive generation of concept maps.
I suggest that you find a way to let readers tag law related blogs in such a way that you (or they) can create concept maps and refine the tags.
Many have already written about the greater utility of tags compared to categories.
I do hope you find this useful.

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