Cultural Anthropology/Anthropological Methods (wikibook)
From the homepage:
Ethnography is a qualitative research method used in social sciences like Anthropology where researchers immerse themselves in other cultures for the purpose of recording information about their lifestyle for comparative research.
The built-in semantics of the TAO model (actually of the TMDM) have been discussed recently. Capturing the semantic models of our users is more important than to imposing a default model on their data.
How would you react to someone who was trying to sell you a service on the basis that your model for data is obviously inferior to what they are offering?
Not the start of a great sales pitch?
But that is what the Semantic Web and Topic Maps have been pushing. Abandon your current model! Salvation is just a new model away!
Hardly.
I don’t dislike the TAO model. We need a model to start the conversation about the user’s model.
But does every user of topic maps have to march in lock-step with the built-in semantics of the TMDM or can they fashion their own semantics?
A sales pitch that starts “We can help you capture your data model, for preservation/migration and add new capabilities to your existing infrastructure.” is a lot less threatening.
What do you think?