Ontologies, categories, folksonomies: an organised language of sound

Authors:
Kenneth Fields
Affiliations:
CEMC – China Electronic Music Center, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing 100031, China email: ken@ccom.edu.cn
Venue:
Organised Sound
Year:
2007

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Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web

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Abstract

The views of categorisation presented in this paper along with my own are for the purpose of providing background for current taxonomic projects related to electroacoustic music (e.g. EARS: ElectroAcoustic Resource Site). The views might be summarised as top-down (ontology) as described in Peterson, bottom-up (folksonomy) as described in Shirkey and Weinberger, and a view from the middle ground (TagOntology) as described in Gruber. Semantic Wikipedia enters this discourse in relation to what one might call folk-ontology. It is crucial to conduct experimentation with minimal specifications and practical methodologies in order to facilitate the interoperability of dynamic, emergent knowledge bases within the Semantic Web context.