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28 Sep 09

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

  • The organic system of organization
    developing in Delicious and Flickr was called a “folksonomy” by
    Thomas Vander Wal in a discussion on an information architecture
    mailing list (Smith, 2004). It is a combination of “folk” and
    “taxonomy.”



    An important aspect of a folksonomy is that is comprised of
    terms in a flat namespace: that is, there is no hierarchy, and
    no directly specified parent-‍child or sibling relationships
    between these terms. There are, however, automatically
    generated “related” tags, which cluster tags based on common
    URLs. This is unlike formal taxonomies and classification
    schemes where there are multiple kind of explicit relationships
    between terms. These relationships include things like broader,
    narrower, as well as related terms. These folksonomies are
    simply the set of terms that a group of users tagged content
    with, they are not a predetermined set of classification terms
    or labels.

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