{"id":79,"date":"2005-03-16T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T18:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/03\/16\/metadata-classifications-fauxonomies-e"},"modified":"2005-03-16T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T18:13:04","slug":"metadata-classifications-fauxonomies-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/03\/16\/metadata-classifications-fauxonomies-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Metadata (classifications, fauxonomies, etc)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a833'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Weinberger thoughtfully transcribed what sounds like a cheerful, fast-paced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/003799.html\">panel on metadata<\/a>.  What I like best about the session is that most people got hung up on the terms and implementations currently being used, and didn&#8217;t get down to any kind of serious discussion of where metadata comes from and how to allow and support multiple overlapping schemas.<\/p>\n<p>Instead there were brief discussions about empirics: why people have done things, where there is consensus and where everyone does their own thing.  I don&#8217;t think they even managed to touch on the issue of how often people don&#8217;t metadatalize things ideally <b>according their own preferences<\/b>.  The fact that everyone is different doesn&#8217;t mean that they don&#8217;t regularly make &#8216;typos&#8217; (or whatever the equivalent is when you&#8217;re trying to annotate, contextualize, metadatify, classify&#8230; there must be a word for this in librarianship).<\/p>\n<p>For my part, now that the bar for linguistic acrobatics is being set by the growing abusonomy of modern almostl33t-speek, I will try to help people overcome their %@&amp;!sonomy and &#8220;prototag&#8221; fixations by insisting on referring to all such entities as &#8220;metadata,&#8221; or some verbal fauximile thereof. <\/p>\n<p>Technometadata:  <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fauxonomy\" rel=\"tag\">*nomy<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/etech\" rel=\"tag\">etech<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/joho\" rel=\"tag\">joho[ho]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/003799.html'>Metadata (classifications, fauxonomies, etc) &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weinberger thoughtfully transcribed what sounds like a cheerful, fast-paced panel on metadata. What I like best about the session is that most people got hung up on the terms and implementations currently being used, and didn&#8217;t get down to any kind of serious discussion of where metadata comes from and how to allow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-1h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}