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Ontologies, categories, folksonomies: an organised language of sound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2007

Kenneth Fields
Kenneth Fields
Affiliation:
CEMC – China Electronic Music Center, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing 100031, China email: [email protected]
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 2007 , pp. 101 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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