Tagging is the inverse to ‘metadata’ as it is an idosyncratic and localised way to categorise information into what might later become knowledge. Tagging seems to support the libertarian ethos of the Internet, however as Amarta Sen says ‘you have a right to be libertarian, but I have a right not to be killed’.
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I see some problem with tagging as yes it reinforces localised (not always geographical) group knowledge, but then again the role of education is often to get individuals and groups to look beyong their own individual circumstances. Meta-structures for the people I say!
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