Folksonomy, as I've learned from some research and the readings from what my group has founded online, is just another fancy word of saying Tagging.
When you tag something online you want to know everything related to the term. So let's say you search for Albert Einstein and while you're reading you see Uranium. You tag that term and everything related to Uranium will pop up.
So what in the world does it have to do with Folksonomy? I don't know, maybe some people thought it would be a nice way of confusing people. It would have been better had the term were Tagsonomy, Tagnomy, or something.
But why Folksonomy???
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Good question and it will be interesting to see what the group working on that word for the wiki describes. I do know that taxonomy a method of classifications and is usually hierarchical. These standardized terms can then be assigned to content for tagging. An example of a medical taxonomy is MESH.
ReplyDeleteIn comparison folksonomy is a user generated "taxonomy". Since this isn't a published paper for an assignment I'll put up a Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy.
And according to dictionary.com folksonomy is a "type of classification system for online content, created by an individual user who tags information with freely chosen keywords; also, the cooperation of a group of people to create such a classification system."
Actually, my group is the one doing folksonomy! :-) And I still don't understand why it's folksonomy and not just some other inventive word.
ReplyDeleteHow about this...a American slang for a group of people is called "folks" like lets get the folks toghether for dinner, or how are your folks (aka parents) doing? So in this case the folks are creating the taxonomy so it becomes a folksonomy.
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