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Mathieu Plourde"As users continue to add tags, a grassroots organizational scheme begins to emerge which has been dubbed by information architect Thomas Vander Wal, to be a folksonomy. A combination of “folks” and “taxonomy”, the term has come to mean a non-hierarchical ontology that is created as a natural result of user-added metadata or tagging."
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05 Jan 12
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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Folksonomies are inclusive.
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Folksonomies are current
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olksonomies offer discovery
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unknown and unexpected resource
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ftentimes the user doesn’t know exactly what resources that they are looking for at the start of their research.
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Foksonomies are Non-Binary.
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cat, kitten, feline, tabby, cute
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the scheme is multi-faceted
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The Library of Congress subject heading for movies is ‘Motion Pictures’. By reducing terms such as movies, film, and cinema to one all-encompassing category, the distinctive meanings of each term gets lost in the translation.
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Folkonomies are democratic and self-moderating.
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, encourage users from an individua
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to remember them in the future
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social dynamic
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Folksonomies follow “desire lines”
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Folkonomies offer insight into user behavior.
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functional tags
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stable tag pattern emerges
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Folksonomies engender community.
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community
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sharing
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Folksonomies offer a low cost alternative
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Folksonomies offer usability
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Resistance is Futile
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The cost and the amount of manpower required would just be too high.
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scalable
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I wouldn’t even want to think of what it would cost to replicate the Wikipedia categories with paid labor”.
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“It doesn’t matter whether we “accept” folksonomies, because we’re not going to be given that choice.
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The Hitch
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flaws
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Folksonomies have no synonym contro
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Folksonomies have a lack of precision
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olksonomies lack hierarchy
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Folksonomies have a “basic level” problem
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Folksonomies have a lack of recall.
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Folksonomies are susceptible to “gaming”
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Libraries that Tag
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he wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, and the collective intelligence are doing what heretofore only expert catalogers, information architects and website authors have done
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Folksonomies give us a chance to observe how users tag their own resources as well as what kind of untraditional categories have surfaced.
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Folksonomies also give us an opportunity to observe user behavior and tagging patterns
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a stable tag pattern emerges after the first one hundred bookmarks are placed for a particular website
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Folksonomies engender community. There is a spirit of sharing and community in user-based tagging sit
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From a psychological standpoint, people tend to be most influenced in decision-making by the first piece of information that they come across. Efforts are then made, on a sub-conscious level, to confirm this found information and avoid opposing viewpoints
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Web 2.0 is about sharing and connectivity and participation.
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n user-based tagging systems, there is no controlled vocabulary and therefore one authoritative term does not exist to describe a concept or entity. This is considered a shortcoming when different users describe assets using many different terms to presumably describe the same thing
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“a Folksonomy is nearly useless for searching out specific, accurate information, but that’s beside the point.”
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“In practical usage scenarios the trade-off between simplicity and precision makes sense.
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people have an opportunity to learn from one another while tagging and categorizing.
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25 Jul 11
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he long tail, a phrase first discussed by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine, consists of the interests of the minority that lie at the “tail” end of a power law, or statistical distribution, which charts the most popular topics. When combined, these non-mainstream, or niche interests far outnumber the popular ones. (16)
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e self is now contained in various categories such as me, mine, and my_stuff.
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Folksonomies also give us an opportunity to observe user behavior and tagging patterns. According to a study of the del.icio.us website conducted by the Information Dynamics Lab at HP Labs, a stable tag pattern emerges after the first one hundred bookmarks are placed for a particular website. They attribute this synchronization to user imitation of popular tags and to a common knowledge base shared by users of the site. As a result, alternative views exist alongside popular ones without being disruptive to the pattern.(11)
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n his article on Authority, Peter Morville discusses the concept of anchoring as an information seeking behavior. From a psychological standpoint, people tend to be most influenced in decision-making by the first piece of information that they come across. Efforts are then made, on a sub-conscious level, to confirm this found information and avoid opposing viewpoints. (22) So, if users have a predisposition to anchor onto the most findable information out there, an appropriate response would be to provide the user with a system that is accessible or they will find it somewhere else that is.
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rding to Clay Shirky, folksonomies are a “forced move”, they are coming whether we like it or not. “It doesn’t matter whether we “accept” folksonomies, because we’re not going to be given that choice.” (24)
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Additionally, many social tagging sites provide lists of “related terms” which encourage the use of “popular” synonyms. Nevertheless, this is a serious limitation of these systems that developers will need to grapple with as they grow in size.
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folksonomies are discovery systems,
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As Lee of Headshift responds, “In practical usage scenarios the trade-off between simplicity and precision makes sense.”(15) Folksonomies are usable and accessible. Although precision is certainly important, it isn’t everything.
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Once again I will mention the concept of trade-offs and that although a user may not be able to locate every resource which has been organized in this fashion, the user will find nothing in a system which is too difficult or daunting to use. Flickr CEO Stewart Butterfield points out, “we’ll have a million photos of Tokyo, and if the TOKYO tag only gets you 400k of them, it’s OK. You’re only going to look at 20 of them anyway.”(25)
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There are librarian groups tagging on CiteULike, a social bookmarking site for academic citations which allows users to export their libraries to Endnote or BibTeX.
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Lynn Nguyenhttp://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/08/25/
folksonomy.phpfolksonomy classification tagging metadata social bookmarking taxonomy web2.0 tags
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Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems.
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The wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, and the collective intelligence are doing what heretofore only expert catalogers, information architects and website authors have done
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Users organize their own or other’s data in the public sphere and the social, or community, aspects arise from there as users share and seek out like-minded individuals.
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All of the above sites offer a view of the global “tag cloud”. A tag cloud displays all of the most popular tags in use across a page with the more popular tags in larger sizes.
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In this way, users can tell at a glance what the most popular tags are with other users.
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For taggers, it’s not about the right or the wrong way to categorize something and it’s not about accuracy or authority, it’s about remembering.
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a grassroots organizational scheme begins to emerge which has been dubbed by information architect Thomas Vander Wal, to be a folksonomy.
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Folksonomies are inclusive.
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Folksonomies are current.
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Folksonomies offer discovery.
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Foksonomies are Non-Binary.
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In a folksonomy, these items can fit into multiple categories.
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Folkonomies are democratic and self-moderating. Everyone has the opportunity to add something to the whole. Likewise, these systems are self-moderating.
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Folkonomies offer insight into user behavior.
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Folksonomies also give us an opportunity to observe user behavior and tagging patterns.
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They attribute this synchronization to user imitation of popular tags and to a common knowledge base shared by users of the site. As a result, alternative views exist alongside popular ones without being disruptive to the pattern.
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There is a spirit of sharing and community in user-based tagging sites.
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Folksonomies engender community.
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Folksonomies have no synonym control.
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In user-based tagging systems, there is no controlled vocabulary and therefore one authoritative term does not exist to describe a concept or entity.
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Folksonomies have a lack of precision.
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Folksonomies lack hierarchy.
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Folksonomies have a lack of recall.
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Nicky Hayward-Wrightby Ellyssa Kroski (InfoTangle blog) 7 Dec 2007. Also see interesting reader comments
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User-Based Tagging and Folksonomies
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As users continue to add tags, a grassroots organizational scheme begins to emerge which has been dubbed by information architect Thomas Vander Wal, to be a folksonomy. A combination of “folks” and “taxonomy”, the term has come to mean a non-hierarchical ontology that is created as a natural result of user-added metadata or tagging
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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Folksonomies are inclusive.
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Folksonomies are current.
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Folksonomies offer discovery
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Foksonomies are Non-Binary
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Folkonomies are democratic and self-moderating
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Folksonomies follow “desire line
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Folkonomies offer insight into user behavior
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Folksonomies engender community
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Folksonomies offer a low cost alternative.
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Folksonomies offer usability
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Resistance is Futile.
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The Hitch
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Folksonomies have no synonym control.
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Folksonomies have a lack of precision
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Folksonomies lack hierarchy.
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Folksonomies have a “basic level” problem
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Folksonomies have a lack of recall
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Folksonomies are susceptible to “gaming”
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Libraries that Tag
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06 May 10
Carey craddockarticle about tagging and folksonomies
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Nina LevineClear, concise introduction to folksonomies and tagging.
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The wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, and the collective intelligence are doing what heretofore only expert catalogers, information architects and website authors have done. They are categorizing and organizing the Internet and determining the user experience, and it’s working.
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Users organize their own or other’s data in the public sphere and the social, or community, aspects arise from there as users share and seek out like-minded individuals.
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Users create keywords in order to be able to recall their information at a later time and often their tags are reflective of that.
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categorization is customized for each individual while still serving all of them.
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folksonomies include everyone’s vocabulary and reflect everyone’s needs without cultural, social, or political bias.
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Tagging-based systems offer a fluidity and currency which is not possible in a controlled, hierarchical taxonomy. Users create tags as quickly as they create content and they are immediately added to the ontology. T
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In a folksonomy the scheme is multi-faceted. As Clay Shirky points out in his discussion of this topic, there is “signal loss” when you merge multiple concepts into just one term.
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By reducing terms such as movies, film, and cinema to one all-encompassing category, the distinctive meanings of each term gets lost in the translation.
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since tagging is done in a public forum, the social dynamic sways users to choose relevant tags, according to Technorati’s Dave Sifry.(19)
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Since a folksonomy arises as a result of user tagging, it is reflective of the way that they categorize information.
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Folksonomies give us a chance to observe how users tag their own resources as well as what kind of untraditional categories have surfaced.
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Folksonomies also give us an opportunity to observe user behavior and tagging patterns.
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There is a spirit of sharing and community in user-based tagging sites.
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n user-based tagging systems, there is no controlled vocabulary and therefore one authoritative term does not exist to describe a concept or entity. This is considered a shortcoming when different users describe assets using many different terms to presumably describe the same thing, i.e. cats, kittens, felines, etc.
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Folksonomies are flat systems. There are no parent-child relationships, no categories and subcategories. Hierarchy is a distinguishing trait of traditional taxonomies which are able to provide a deeper, more robust classification of entities. Such systems allow users a finer granularity in searching for resources.
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Folksonomies have a lack of recall. Recall reflects the ability of a system to return all resources related to a topic.
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Folksonomies are susceptible to “gaming”.
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Sandra RiveraToday, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems.
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16 Oct 09
Catherine HillmanInformation on the fascinating study of Folksonomy
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Christian SaxThere is a revolution happening on the Internet that is alive and building momentum with each passing tag. With the advent of social software and Web 2.0, we usher in a new era of Internet order. One in which the user has the power to effect their own onl
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11 Jul 09
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del.icio.us, 43Things and Flickr focus their attention on organizing data
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For taggers, it’s not about the right or the wrong way to categorize something and it’s not about accuracy or authority, it’s about remembering
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The wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, and the collective intelligence
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A tag cloud displays all of the most popular tags in use across a page with the more popular tags in larger sizes.
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olksonomies include everyone’s vocabulary and reflect everyone’s needs without cultural, social, or political bias.
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he long tail, a phrase first discussed by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine, consists of the interests of the minority that lie at the “tail” end of a power law, or statistical distribution, which charts the most popular topics.
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Because of the lack of synonym control, a folksonomy search will not effect a complete results list because of the use of similar tags.
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Jack ParkThere is a revolution happening on the Internet that is alive and building momentum with each passing tag. With the advent of social software and Web 2.0, we usher in a new era of Internet order. One in which the user has the power to effect their own online experience, and contribute to others’. Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems. The wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, and the collective intelligence are doing what heretofore only expert catalogers, information architects and website authors have done. They are categorizing and organizing the Internet and determining the user experience, and it’s working. No longer do the experts have the monopoly on this domain; in this new age users have been empowered to determine their own cataloging needs. Metadata is now in the realm of the Everyman.
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Carolina Velisthe user has the power to effect their own online experience, and contribute to others’. Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification syste
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cvandervenBy Ellyssa Kroski (InfoTangle, December 2005)
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There is a revolution happening on the Internet that is alive and building momentum with each passing tag. With the advent of social software and Web 2.0, we usher in a new era of Internet order. One in which the user has the power to effect their own online experience, and contribute to others’. Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems. The wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, and the collective intelligence are doing what heretofore only expert catalogers, information architects and website authors have done. They are categorizing and organizing the Internet and determining the user experience, and it’s working. No longer do the experts have the monopoly on this domain; in this new age users have been empowered to determine their own cataloging needs. Metadata is now in the realm of the Everyman.
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The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging
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Shannon Holmanfolksonomies are discovery systems, without the powerful search capacity of a hierarchical taxonomy. Characteristically, they are going to have low precision rates.
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