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• 30 Nov 11
  

  Getaneh Alemu

  folk classification

  folksonomy ethnoclassification classification folk classification

• 23 Apr 09
  

  Roger Guedes

  Classificação Ethnoclassification Folksonomia Tagging Web

• 31 Oct 08
  

  africangirl

  qualitative_forschung taxonomien klassifikation folksonomien delicious

• 15 Jun 08
  

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  Merholz

  Merholz

• 28 Feb 08
  

  Vincent Sterken

  ethnoclassification folksonomy

• 09 Dec 07
  

  patarakin

  classification design taxonomy folksonomy

• 13 Aug 07
  

  Emanuele Quintarelli

  ethnoclassification folksonomies

• 30 Jul 07
  

  seppkurt

  collaboration delicious flickr folksonomy ethnoclassification taxonomy classification tagging

• 31 Jul 06
  

  Kevin Wen

  digitalculture emerging ia technology

• 20 Mar 06
  

  Sérgio Carvalho

  blogs taxonomy

• 26 Feb 05
  

  David Naughton

  Peter Merholz: 2004-08-30: peterme.com

  social-software folksonomy taxonomy tags

• 20 Jan 05
  

  Jeremy Wagstaff

  tags

• 10 Nov 04
  

  Jochen Dudeck

  ethnoclassification folksonomy

• 02 Nov 04
  

  Nick Gall

  via_delicious_20101217 ImportedFurl20071006 SemanticWeb folksonomy pinboardimport20141106

  • The latest meme to catch fire in the IA community deals with the folk classification tools found on systems like del.icio.us and Flickr. Users are able to freely tag content with whatever metadata comes to mind.
• 08 Sep 04
  

  Sérgio Carvalho

  blogs taxonomy

• 01 Sep 04
  

  Seb Paquet

  I\'m thinking maybe an intranet, where people are free to tag documents as they see fit, but there is some librarian/IA role that attempts to provide some degree of robustness to such a scattered classification.

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  Triple Entendre

  del.icio.us organization social-software folksonomy knowledge-management tags

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  Thomas Vander Wal

  bottom-up ethnoclassification folksonomy ia metadata

• 31 Aug 04
  

  Howard Rheingold

  critique of del.icio.us and look at "folksonomy" nomenclature

  del.icio.us sharing_economy

  • I think we should drop the term "folksonomy." No offense to Thomas -- it's a catchy term, which, I guess, is why it has caught on. It's also inaccurate. What bugs me most is the use of the word "taxonomy." Taxonomies tend toward hierarchy, and they tend to be imposed. Tagging does not a taxonomy make.
  • What we're talking about here is "classification." In rooting around, trying to find some prior research on this topic, I plugged "folk classification" into Google, it turns out that anthropologists have done some thinking around this, particularly with respect to ethnobiology, or how the folk approach biology, and ethnoscience.
  • This lead me to think that the appropriate term would be "ethnoclassification"
  • The practice of tagging on del.icio.us works because, at its heart, it's meant for the use of the individual doing the tagging. The fact that it contributes to the group is a happy by-product... But as a tool for group tagging, it's woefully insufficient. Del.icio.us has a very low findability quotient. It's great for serendipity and browsing, and an utter disaster for anything targeted.

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