Hi, I'm running OpenKM for evaluation and I really like what I see.
It seems English is not the first language of major contributors. To me the concepts of Taxonomy, Categories, Metadata, and Thesaurus are a bit different from what one would expect from these English words in general use.
Could someone describe the main idea and purpose of those concepts, especially the differences between them? What makes one choose Taxonomy instead of Categories or Metadata, for example? Thanks very much, the User Guide is very brief in this respect.
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That's the question. On a side note I'm all for this way of creating a multidimensional structure. Most other systems begin by taking a hierarchy for granted. "The Universe is hierarchical, you know," they seem to say. No, it's definitely not. In the real world things have more than one facet, get mixed up, transform from one appearance to another, sometimes for good reasons, at other times for silly reasons. They remain reality and must be managed.
It seems English is not the first language of major contributors. To me the concepts of Taxonomy, Categories, Metadata, and Thesaurus are a bit different from what one would expect from these English words in general use.
Could someone describe the main idea and purpose of those concepts, especially the differences between them? What makes one choose Taxonomy instead of Categories or Metadata, for example? Thanks very much, the User Guide is very brief in this respect.
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That's the question. On a side note I'm all for this way of creating a multidimensional structure. Most other systems begin by taking a hierarchy for granted. "The Universe is hierarchical, you know," they seem to say. No, it's definitely not. In the real world things have more than one facet, get mixed up, transform from one appearance to another, sometimes for good reasons, at other times for silly reasons. They remain reality and must be managed.