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[I’m Simon Dickson.] A project at my current employer - not one I’m directly involved with, let me say - is building a major new government website. They have pre-defined an exhaustive taxonomy which will drive the whole site;

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[Govtechnews.com] GovTechNews: A government-technology blog: March 2004 Archives: Convera U.S. Government Taxonomy: Aimed at government agencies and departments, the Convera U.S. Government Taxonomy is designed to organize information and help citizens who are not experts on government subjects find specific data on citizens' rights, public services, legislation and government structure. Target customers are government agencies responsible for providing public services as well as government departments responsible for making information available to citizens.

[Windley.com] Phil Windley's Technometria | Folksonomies and Architectures of ...: A larger example is Technorati's use of tags (www.technorati.com/tags).Unlike Del.icio.us and Flickr, Technorati users don't create tags on theTechnorati site directly, they create them by adding the tag as a keywordto their blog posts and Technorati finds them when it crawls the Web.Technorati pulls together blog posts, Del.icio.us bookmarks, and Flickrphotos for any given tag on a single page. Technorati even shows yourelated tags.

[Radio.weblogs.com] Mark O'Neill's Radio Weblog: Some people, such as Dare Obasanjo from Microsoft, have pointed out the fact that Websites that claim a "REST" interface can have interfaces that actually break the REST model.

[Semantic-web.at] Folksonomy Extends Geospatial Taxonomy - Knowledge Management, EAI ...: She calls her imagery portal, keys in “Hurricane,” and is presented with clusters of images, one of which contains the tag “Katrina.” The responder follows the link and finds all recent imagery of the ongoing event. Unfortunately, all these are just photos without detailed geospatial content since she was using flickr.

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