Emmet and I are currently preparing our second article for publication. Pretty ace. Here’s part of the abstract -

theirwork is a living mapmaking project, which by its nature rejects a top-down system of classification, or taxonomy, and adopts instead a system of labelling, or what has been dubbed “folksonomy”. Working from a conscious standpoint, which views authoritative and hierarchical taxonomic systems as disempowering, folksonomy enables the theirwork end-user, who works online, to collaboratively generate open-ended labels for map-based data. Forgoing other top-down systems that often produce hegemonic systems and organisations (such as copyrighted base maps and copyrighted Geographical Information Systems data), this essay descriptively reveals how theirwork is developing a rhizomatous model of collection, presentation and dissemination.

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