A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and translating tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Folksonomy, a term coined by Thomas Vander Wal, is a portmanteau of fo...
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: Taxonomies are centralised ways of classifying information - as in libraries. Folksonomies are the way folk create less structured ways of classifying by adding tags.
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the spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; not to be confused with the protologism, folktsunami the wave of global usage which swamps the language, leading ultimately to a folksonomy.
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a collection of terms allocated to resources by users in order to categorise or index them in a way that the users consider useful. Terms in folksonomies, often called tags, are typically added in an uncontrolled manner, without any underlying structure or principles. They may be idiosyncratic, but may also use current terminology more quickly than...
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