17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the at least one characteristic associated with at least one item of at least one plurality of items comprises: a taxonomy-related identifier; an ontology-related identifier; or a folksonomy-related identifier.
16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one characteristic associated with at least one item of at least one plurality of items comprises: a keyword; a classification-oriented identifier; a categorization-oriented identifier; or a semantic web-oriented identifier.