Why don’t we use topic maps more often to address this issue?

My world view doesn’t equal your world view, which is the root problem with any method of information creation, classification and discovery.

Rather than going, “oh taxonomies are so horrible”, why not allow a plethora of ways of describing something, using taxonomies, folk taxonomies and folksonomies, and use a topic map, so that we can have our cake and eat it too!

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