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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I'm really glad we're having this conversation. The threads about
<a
href="http://lists.tagcommons.org/pipermail/wg-tagcommons.org/2007-March/000027.html">data
schema and APIs</a> and the <a
href="http://lists.tagcommons.org/pipermail/wg-tagcommons.org/2007-March/000028.html">role
of ontology</a> and how to relate to <a
href="http://lists.tagcommons.org/pipermail/wg-tagcommons.org/2007-March/000023.html">existing
ontologies</a> are at the heart of misunderstandings between the "just get
it done" crowd and the "try to do it well" crowd, if you'll
forgive my simplifying labels. (I consider myself one of each :), so I
get to tease.)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>In response, I had gone on a bit in a long-winded email message, but it
turned in to a standalone essay that I posed on the blog:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><a
href="http://tagcommons.org/2007/03/02/ontologies-vs-formats-vs-schema-vs-apis/">http://tagcommons.org/2007/03/02/ontologies-vs-formats-vs-schema-vs-apis/</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>By the way, all of you are invited to post
to the tagcommons.org blog. The difference in my mind is that the blog is
for somewhat complete and context-independent ideas, whereas our discussion
forum is for contextual dialog toward an agreement for sharing tag data. Also,
as Nitin suggests, some remarks are better placed as comments in the context of
the more public-facing blog, and others are part of our dialog here.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>--tom</span></font></p>
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