Interesting thought provoking article (Clipped below). The point with which I agree; the disposal of traditional hierarchical taxonomies. The call is for meta structures, recognising that the one size fits all just doesn't work. The semantics used, should be syntax independent. Applicable in a variety of contexts yet are capable of technological translation and mapping onto local contextual situations.
predicted the death of traditional, monolithic, and single-hierarchy taxonomies, as well as the death of what I’d call the typical turn-of-the-21st-century taxonomy project
Metadata continues to be vital, but technology is constantly getting better at mining and organizing it.
entity extraction and semantic analysis create multi-faceted categorizations by people, country, city, language, companies, and other topics. Most of the content was unstructured; no taxonomy or tagging projects were undertaken.
taxonomists need to adapt and work with technology to improve the results of what they can achieve for enterprises.
the title “taxonomist” should die
it pushes people into the mindset of fixed hierarchies and navigations
Metadata architects can no longer get away with being topic generalists, they must be specialists in the industry content they’re refining and understand the end-user
I propose embracing a new era of metadata architects, ones that work with technology
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