http://www.diigo.com/user/Pgstreby/folksonomies Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:25:55 -0000 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:25:55 -0000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><b>Folksonomy</b> (also known as <b>collaborative tagging</b> , <b>social classification</b>, <b>social indexing</b>, <b>social tagging</b>, and other names) is the practice and method of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative" title="Collaborative">collaboratively</a> creating and managing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29" title="Tag (metadata)">tags</a> to annotate and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization" title="Categorization">categorize</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_%28media_and_publishing%29" title="Content (media and publishing)">content</a>. In contrast to traditional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_indexing" title="Subject indexing">subject indexing</a>, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword" title="Keyword">keywords</a> are used instead of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_vocabulary" title="Controlled vocabulary">controlled vocabulary</a>.<sup class="reference" id="_ref-Voss000_0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/#_note-Voss000" title="">[1]</a></sup></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/pgstreby/folksonomies' rel='tag'>folksonomies</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/pgstreby'>pgstreby</a></p> Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:25:55 -0000 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2005/12/07/the-hive-mind-folksonomies-and-user-based-tagging <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">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.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/pgstreby/folksonomies' rel='tag'>folksonomies</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/pgstreby/libraries' rel='tag'>libraries</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/pgstreby/social_bookmarking' rel='tag'>social_bookmarking</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/pgstreby'>pgstreby</a></p> Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:14:15 -0000 60