| May. 6th, 2005 @ 03:01 pm A break from class to discuss Folksonomy, Digital Libraries |
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Folksonomy, according to Wikipedia:
"Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories, noted because it is almost completely unlike traditional formal methods of faceted classification. This phenomenon typically only arises in non-hierarchical communities such as public websites as opposed to multi-level teams. Since the organizers of the information are usually its primary users, folksonomy produces results that more accurately reflect the population's conceptual model of the information."
There, now doesn't that make sense? Essentially, where a taxonomy is codified and maintained by an entity, a folksonomy is barely codified and maintained by anybody. Examples include social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us and Simpy, a photo-sharing site such as Flickr or the sound sharing site freesound. A relatively recent phonomenon, a measure it's impact might be might be determined in the fact that folksonomy is being taught in information science programs around the country.
Being text-oriented and interested in digital libraries, my own very modest contribution is a DL site on del.icio.us: del.icio.us/raharris/. Please check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions -- Robert |
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