Preface to the second edition

The second edition of the #tagcoding handbook was long overdue after the Sustainable Development Goals were launched at the United Nations General Assembly of September 2015. It comes also at the right time. On October 5, 2018 I received notification that the Actor Atlas #tagcoding pivots for the 2030 Agenda have been included as resources in the Global Sustainable Consumption and Production Clearinghouse.

Three new chapters have been added in this edition: the 2nd chapter about pivotal points in the history of knowledge creation and how they lead to the #tagcoding localization model, the 3rd chapter about tools for looking up coding hashtags, the 4th chapter with the coding hashtags for the sustainable development goals and targets, and Chapter 8 and Annex 4 with the coding hashtags for the Central Product Classification. The sustainable development goals and targets are four years old now, but we still have 11 years to go until 2030. It is for those years that #tagcoding will be an essential digital skill.

After reading this book, please use the proposed hashtags when sharing your content. The more people use #tagcoding, the faster we will overcome digital and other divides that slow down the broadbased localization of knowledge for sustainable development. On the internet and social media, #tagcoding empowers the reader.

If reading this book leaves you with questions, do not hesitate to use the Forum of this book, the book’s feedback page, the comment sections at any of the wikis referenced in this book, or suitable coding hashtags. Ask questions sooner rather than later.

Alongside with #tagcoding also the creation of mutually linked wikis with curated knowledge - #tag2wiki - and the authoring and lean publishing of e-books leveraging #tagcoding - #lean2book - are important digital skills for the localization and translation of knowledge. Related topics are addressed in posts and wikis, before they will become part of a handbook. More wiki and e-book related insights may be added in later editions of this handbook, or in a new handbook.

The knowledge localization model presented in this handbook, and the handbook itself, build upon a number of great resources. I am grateful to anyone who has put an effort in creating and improving those resources. The Wikidot wikifarm has offered a low cost, yet powerful platform to experiment with the wiki-related ideas that have initiated the journey leading to this handbook. In the handbook you will read about the #tagcoding pivot. It is a single wiki page that contains content that in this book takes about 40 to 50 pages. Without Twitter it is fair to say that #tagcoding at the scale envisioned in this handbook wouldn’t be thinkable. There is the saying that a picture says more than a thousand words. As my mastery of language may be insufficient to explain in a compelling way the future use of the internet and social media that I envisioned many years ago, building upon past transformations sparked by innovative communications technology. The ArchiMate standard and the Archi modelling tool were very helpful in drawing up a few small models and make a long story short. Last but not least there is the Leanpub publishing platform that holds a great promise, including for knowledge localization.

My special gratitude goes to Teody Trivilegio who has been creating most of the non-English pages of the Actor Atlas, and most of the local government unit pages, as well as many other pages in the network of wikis that Wikinetix is providing.

Finally, my gratitude goes to my wife and our daughter for the love and patience.

The author, Malle, October 9, 2018.