Labels, Tags, Indexes and Keywords

Library Science buffs will have fun with this one

Flat space labelling - argh remember the good old days of flat file systems!

Connect these to notions of:

Binomial Nomenclature from Taxonomy in Biology.

Connect these to notions of:
Naming and directory services: NIS, X.500, LDAP, DNS, UDDI
OLAP: Fact tablse and more improtantly Dimensions with heirarchical structure and orthogonal to each other.
Library Catalogs: searches by title, author, ISBN, ... subject
Dewey Decimal system, LOC
Subject Indexes (LOC)
Georaphic relations
Admin relations

Employment categorization by various govrnments (DoL in the US?)

Contrast this with:
Flat space labelling
Directories, hashes/DL; sets/UL; arrays OL
Strictly Heirarchical: yes the Life Sciences example
Knowledge bases
Amorphous searches

How about:
amorphous/organic (context based) network of labels?

Aspects <-> quality

Attributes

Google base has them
Name value pairs (Multivalued field)

posted by Raj Vardhan @ 5:58 AM