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Book Review: The Accidental Taxonomist

editor — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments.

Definitions

TAXON''OMY, n. [Gr. order, and law.] Classification; a term used by a French author to denote the classification of plants.
Webster's Revised Dictionary (1828 Edition) [1]

Tax*on"o*my (?), n. [Gr. an arrangement, order + a law.] That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.
Webster's Revised Dictionary (1913 Edition) [1]

Taxonomy

Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR

editor — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.

The IEMSR, a metadata schema registry, exists to support the development and use of metadata standards; in practice, what does this entail?

Book Review: Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements.

This book is all about computerisation movements – CMs, for short. CMs are social, professional, intellectual and/or scientific movements [1], collective movements fuelled by a group of people who share a vision of the way that things should be, and are ready to promote that vision. For some readers, this may sound a little abstract, so I will begin with a little descriptive preamble, which others are welcome to skip.

Book Review: Ambient Findability

editor — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges.

Ambient Findability is to all external appearances an O'Reilly book. It boasts the familiar line drawing of an animal, on this occasion a Verreaux's sifaka, a large and engagingly thoughtful-looking lemur. Judging the book by its cover would suggest that it be placed on the shelf together with O'Reilly's classic line of reference books, upon which developers all over the world depend for sparsely presented, accurate information and advice. But this book is of a different breed.

Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging

editor — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:00:00 +0000

Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that.

Despite the stability of many key technologies underlying today's Internet, venerable workhorses such as TCP/IP and HTTP, the rise of new candidate specifications frequently leads to a sort of collaborative manic depression. Every now and then, a new idea comes along and sparks a wave of interest, the first stage in the Internet hype cycle.