[Search-l] Simpy Chichimichi - "Wikia Search - Not Happening"

[Janet Hawtin]

On 4/29/07, Seth Finkelstein <sethf at sethf.com> wrote:
Wikia Search?

Hi Seth

I think if I had JW's last week I'd be looking for palm trees about now,
He has been flying from state to state in AU helping our education
sector think about readwrite culture and collaborative creation.
Ripper stuff.

On wikia search at the Adelaide talk JW did mention the wikia search
so I expect that it will be happening when the dust settles.
For myself I think it is a fascinating project and feels like a
natural but challenging next step.

The trickiness will be around working towards a NPOV on use of keywords
We are all pretty individual in our use of language and I do some
pretty eccentric delicious tagging. I guess when groups of people
negotiate to use a term in an agreed way then we will be able to
search reliably using our collected comtributions or mappings.

Are others working on projects which crosspollinate between folksonomy
and taxonomy?

Cheers

Janet