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Visions, models & emerging approaches
This page http://tagunity.wikispaces.com/visions

There a multiple proposal for, on one hand making ontologies more attractive for average users to use, and on the other hand making folksonomy or social tagging more structured.

This research identifies several visions that may show the way to imagine online applications that provide communities with spaces where data structures and community vocabularies can be constructed to support knowledge creation and sharing.



Community driven metadata management for semantic community portals
The idea of community driven metadata management proposes that ontologies for community portals can be built using "simple ontologies" for example, FOAF, vCard and RSS. While FOAF and RSS are commonly used in blogs, vCard provides a standard data format for the exchange of personsal information (e.g. as electronic business cards). vCard supported by many desktop e-mail clients ([|Wikipedia]), and online social networking services (SNS) (e.g. [|LinkedIn]). (See community_driven_metadata_management)

Sociosemantic web
link to Peter Morville's sociosemantic_web vision in detail. [todo //add summary//]

Pragmatic web
[todo //add summary//]
 * **Pragmatic web** pragmatic_web vision in detail;

Named entity web (NEW)
Yahoo's Rob McCool argues that while the "Semantic Web is a compelling vision", (2005, p. 88), "[w]ithout radical simplification, the Semantic Web will continue to see limited participation and few compelling applications," (2006, p. 93). This is because Semantic Web formats (specifically RDF, RDF Schema, and Web Ontology Language (OWL)) are too complex. McCool proposes a simplified approach where named-entity information would be embedded directly in web page HTML code. McCool's 'named-entity web' (NEW) would remove "barriers to adoption" (2006, p. 96). NEW demands less in the way of "consistency and formalism" compared to the more formal Semantic Web ontologies; McCool belives NEW could enable a simple yet useful "extension of the existing Web," (2006, p. 93).
 * Named entity web (NEW)) in detail.

Cluetrain manifesto
(Cluetrain manifesto in detail [todo //add summary//]

A-C-I model
The three element actor concept instance model from (Mika, 2005) build on the limitation of semantic web's onologies being conprising merely instances and concepts, to at the actor, that is the person who uses the ontology to assign an instance to its particular concept or category within the ontology.

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Releated work
Tom Heath writes (private email October 17, 2006) that he is working on an application that aims to share connections and recomendations within communities of networked professionals networks: "It's basically an application for creating and sharing recommendations, and uses FOAF, dublin_core|DC, and the Tag ontology from Richard Newman." Heath expects project to going live soon (perhaps as early as November/December 2006), and he may be looking for input from interested beta testers. Heath says there will be published papers to accommpany the role out.

Releated technolgies

 * Realtravel.com (see realtravel_case_study)
 * Rawsugar (see rawsugar_social_tagging)

Releated concepts
Natural language, e.g. //Adrian Walker// outlines a scenario for turning 'natural language' (e.g. description of business rules) written by a human, where the content is modified into more precise English taht can become 'machine processible'. ... and a vision for building systems is written into a business wiki within, Walker, (n.d.). //todo// complete this