Got an interesting comment from Richard Soderberg that I wanted to share with you, in the hopes of eliciting some comments:

“I’d like to hear more from the library community about the shared and private ontologies being developed at del.icio.us; I’m crysflame on delicious. Glad to see that it’s filling a need in such a relevant demographic I wonder if librarians are, by default, more attracted to del.icio.us than other folk — being a librarian myself, and also having found it completely addictive to use.”

Well, my ontology is woefully lacking as it essentially created on the fly, based on the things that I am cataloging (literary warrant, baby!). Unfortunately, I’m the type that could categorize an item one way on the first day and then forget my thought process the next day, left to wonder what the heck I was thinking (or where that article about ontologies went). I’m sure a little time spent reconsidering my previous choices would serve me well in the long run.

To the second question, of course librarians are drawn to del.icio.us. The opportunity to categorize our online reference sources and share them with an unsuspecting populace will always be a draw.

BTW, since Richard is a librarian, that would make floating atoll a library blog. Better go toss that up onto Blogsource.