Curated folksonomies present a possibility for implementing the human judgment of expert controlled vocabulary design at scale by giving users the opportunity to review and revise the folksonomy, interpreting tags as synonymous or related. The same processes that produce large, user-generated collections and their messy folksonomies can also produce controlled vocabularies, given particular…

Putting things in order has value and right angles have their place. Order can give clarity and simplicity. The city grid ensures neighboring streets are in parallel and not curved away from each other, which is a blessing when in a foreign place with a poor map. But organizing requires conformity, and conformity creates a tyranny over perception. While our universities divide the world into…