http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/people/net-vis-links-chris-harrison Dynamic media: a research project about the co-evolving transformations of creation, code and life. This research was supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme. Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/people/net-vis-links-chris-harrison/comment-page-1#comment-1995 Mat Wall-Smith Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:11:25 +0000 http://researchhub.cofa.unsw.edu.au/ccap/2007/06/29/net-vis-links-chris-harrison/#comment-1995 Tags do provide an unprecedented malleability to a dataset. They also present a whole bunch of problems (good problems). Look at any 'power user's' del.icio.us tags. The tags for the most part are redundant - I mean their semantic definition is redundant. The most important development that tagging presents (at present) is the fact that a particular user has tagged something (as 'anything' at all). This value-adding isn't simply via the endorsement but via the through-linkages that this endorsement 'connects'. With this in mind I'd suggest that the key problem is working out how 'flexible forms of data *sensualization*(?)' might fold into a more 'organic' or 'immediate' form of tagging....and therefore a data-space with a greater degree of 'communality'. By 'communality' I mean only a technical incipience for realizing those 'through-linkages'. Tags do provide an unprecedented malleability to a dataset. They also present a whole bunch of problems (good problems). Look at any ‘power user’s’ del.icio.us tags. The tags for the most part are redundant – I mean their semantic definition is redundant. The most important development that tagging presents (at present) is the fact that a particular user has tagged something (as ‘anything’ at all). This value-adding isn’t simply via the endorsement but via the through-linkages that this endorsement ‘connects’. With this in mind I’d suggest that the key problem is working out how ‘flexible forms of data *sensualization*(?)’ might fold into a more ‘organic’ or ‘immediate’ form of tagging….and therefore a data-space with a greater degree of ‘communality’. By ‘communality’ I mean only a technical incipience for realizing those ‘through-linkages’.

]]> http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/people/net-vis-links-chris-harrison/comment-page-1#comment-1994 Andrew Murphie Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:21:41 +0000 http://researchhub.cofa.unsw.edu.au/ccap/2007/06/29/net-vis-links-chris-harrison/#comment-1994 The more I think about this, the more I think that tags are so important, but only because they provide flexible forms of remixing one's engagement with a database - what we perhaps have not thought about yet is the way we might build a variety of flexible forms of data visualization into the interface as another way of "thinking through" things. The more I think about this, the more I think that tags are so important, but only because they provide flexible forms of remixing one’s engagement with a database – what we perhaps have not thought about yet is the way we might build a variety of flexible forms of data visualization into the interface as another way of “thinking through” things.

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