%0 Journal Article %1 Shirky2005 %A Shirky, Clay %D 2005 %J Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet %K folksonomy, informationsmanagement, inhaltliche\_erschliessung, ontologie %T Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags %U http://shirky.com/writings/ontology\_overrated.html %X ``What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -- the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging -- free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints -- seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.'' (Excerpt)

@article{Shirky2005, abstract = {``What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -- the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging -- free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints -- seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.'' (Excerpt)}, added-at = {2010-05-20T16:45:47.000+0200}, author = {Shirky, Clay}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/22e9cc2bd3d99096ad62c3277ca7e1977/blees}, citeulike-article-id = {1749572}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://shirky.com/writings/ontology\_overrated.html}, interhash = {064875980c48457bcc68c7abd003848c}, intrahash = {2e9cc2bd3d99096ad62c3277ca7e1977}, journal = {Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet}, keywords = {folksonomy, informationsmanagement, inhaltliche\_erschliessung, ontologie}, month = {xx}, posted-at = {2007-10-10 10:59:31}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2010-05-20T16:45:48.000+0200}, title = {Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags}, url = {http://shirky.com/writings/ontology\_overrated.html}, year = 2005 }