@online{voitLogicalDisjunctCategories2017,
    title = {Logical Disjunct Categories Don't Work},
    author = {Voit, Karl},
    date = {2017-04-18T20:07+01:00},
    url = {https://karl-voit.at/2017/04/18/classification/},
    urldate = {2022-12-29},
    abstract = {Logical Disjunct Categories Don't Work},
    organization = {{public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit}},
    keywords = {read},
    file = {/home/dominikh/notes/pdfs/voitLogicalDisjunctCategories2017.html}
}

• Disjunct categories/hierarchies are inherited from the physical world, e.g. books in a library

• rarely work for digital data, most things belong to multiple categires

• the alternative: multi-classification, aka tagging

• article suggests using a controlled vocabulary, i.e. a small set of defined tags.

• avoid singular/plural issues and the vocabulary problem [1]

Article suggests reading the author’s thesis [2].

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