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From Trees to Tags

Date: Tuesday, March 15
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: California Ballroom B

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Moderated by David Weinberger

What will the role of tags be, particularly as their numbers increase? How will we cluster them, find what matters to us, avoid inadvertently reinforcing our traditional social and linguistic groupings, etc.? How are tags and folksonomies affecting the role of hierarchical taxonomic trees? What businesses are likely to arise from this new metadata infrastructure? What are the social effects of tags?

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