Sunday, July 02, 2006
The metaphor between gene, cell and social
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On Formal verses Natural systems à [206]
Link to education commons à [***]
Generative Methodology Glass Bead Games
More complete discussion about the nature of “systems”
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Communication from Thomas
Tagging is helpful in the measurement process, but people are not motivated to tag for measurement. Tagging is simply an explicit action a person can take. We see people tagging for a variety of reasons (hooks for recall, aggregation, filling in missing metadata (putting things into their own vocabulary), sharing with a group, and for action purposes (to read, etc.), but there is a value they personally derive from the tagging.
We currently have less than a half of one percent (0.5%) of the people on the web tagging (that is a very hopeful estimation). It is a very small and skewed audience.
Where I do find interest is watching mom's groups tagging for each other in that group. The are using tagging to identify resources for others who are stuck at home with kids. The tag because search fails them and does not provide a means to build a sense of community.
Now that I have a better grasp of what you are calling skill, tagging provides a means to derive the discipline (skill or knowledge orientation) when it is done well. Often people traverse more than one orientation in their life (multiple professional and personal roles, dialects and idioms, and general interpersonal interactions influence the term used) which can complicate tagging, but there are means of deriving these values by using the objects being tagged and examining their corpus of items tagged with that of others. One interesting twist is many people do not tag items that are their main orientation (a cartographer will not tag with maps or cartography, web designers do not tag with web and/or design) as much of tagging is personal and including our own point of reference is often not considered (learning to count ourselves when counting a group of people is a more difficult task to learn than just counting others around our self in a group). This void can be derived in many cases through comparing corpus with others and looking at dominant role-based tags that are omitted (this gets really tough when your tagging population is relatively homogeneous).