It's been a good couple weeks for surprising key words popping up in disparate places. First there was "slicing and dicing", and now "serendipitizing" makes a return over on Oook blog.

Pondering libraries big and small, past and present, he looks to tagging as an organizational system that helps provide a "narrative structure, the tales they [books, artifacts, library-stuff] are or can be woven into." (Which pretty much explains the first sentence of this post, "surprising key words popping up in disparate places.")

Makes me wonder--what are the similarities and differences between a traditional cataloging structure (say, Library of Congress Subject Headings) and a narrative structure for the artifacts that grows out of tagging. And, how does one move between one and the other?

On the subject of libraries, see also a new project aimed at creating a (yet another) new and improved Bibliographic Ontology.

Exciting stuff as tagging meets libraries.