Folksonomy
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Folksonomy is a classification system in which end users apply public tags to online items, typically to make those items easier for themselves or others to find later. Over time, this can give rise to a classification system based on those tags and how often they are applied or searched for, in contrast to a taxonomic classification designed by the owners of the content and specified when it is published.[1][2] The term was coined by Thomas Vander Wal in 2004[3][4][5] as a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy.
This practice is also known as collaborative tagging,[6][7] social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Folksonomy was originally "the result of personal free tagging of information [...] for one's own retrieval",[3] but online sharing and interaction expanded it into collaborative forms. Social tagging is the application of tags in an open online environment where the tags of other users are available to others. Collaborative tagging (also known as group tagging) is tagging performed by a group of users. This type of folksonomy is commonly used in cooperative and collaborative projects such as research, content repositories, and social bookmarking.
Folksonomies became popular as part of social software applications that enable users to collectively classify and find information via shared tags. Some websites as Flickr include tag clouds as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy.[8]
References
- ^ Peters, Isabella (2009). "Folksonomies. Indexing and Retrieval in Web 2.0". Berlin: De Gruyter Saur. ISBN 978-3-598-25179-5. (isabella-peters.de)
- ^ Pink, Daniel H. (11 December 2005). "Folksonomy". New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
- ^ a b Vander Wal, Thomas (11 December 2005). "Folksonomy Coinage and Definition".
- ^ Vander Wal, T. (2005). "Off the Top: Folksonomy Entries." Visited November 5, 2005. See also: Smith, Gene. "Atomiq: Folksonomy: social classification." Aug 3, 2004. Retrieved January 1, 2007.
- ^ Origin of the term
- ^ Lambiotte, R; Ausloos, M. (2005). Computational Science – ICCS 2006. Vol. 3993. pp. 1114–1117.
- ^ Borne, Kirk. "Collaborative Annotation for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse". Bulletin of Association for Information Science and Technology. ASIS&T. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ Lamere, Paul (June 2008). "Social Tagging And Music Information Retrieval". Journal of New Music Research. Vol. 37, no. 2. pp. 101–114.