Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A collection of metatags generated by users of a particular website that together create a taxonomy that categorizes the content of that website.
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- noun Internet The
spontaneous cooperation of a group of people toorganize information intocategories ; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; auser -generated taxonomy .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Whether "folksonomy" is Greek to you or you've been tagging your bookmarks in del.icio.us since back in the day, this session will deliver insight into the broad concepts involved with social classification as well as examining nuts-and-bolts practical applications.
Stephen's Lighthouse: SirsiDynix Institute on Social Bookmarking 2007
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Whether "folksonomy" is Greek to you or you've been tagging your bookmarks in del.icio.us since back in the day, this session will deliver insight into the broad concepts involved with social classification as well as examining nuts-and-bolts practical applications.
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In technical terms a folksonomy is just a collection of tag assignments:
A Moot of Folksonomies glyn moody 2007
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They rely heavily on what's called folksonomy, or popular classification, instead of taxonomy, or centralized/official classification.
Social Bookmarking 2005
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A folksonomy is a simple way for people to reference things so that they can find those things later within a given context.
The Rise of Amateur Conferences Chris Heuer 2005
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Steve Rubel notes that there's a debate at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about a new listing for the word folksonomy, which it defines as "a neologism for a practice ... iPod
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Steve Rubel notes that there's a debate at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about a new listing for the word folksonomy, which it defines as "a neologism for a practice ... iPod
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Keywords - The degenerate case of a folksonomy is a simply flat list of strings.
Site Home ecmblog 2010
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Read on for immediate simulated life examples, instructions for deployment, and the initial tag folksonomy for the Haiti disaster.
/message 2010
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Read on for immediate simulated life examples, instructions for deployment, and the initial tag folksonomy for the Haiti disaster.
/message 2010
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Tagging systems were “folksonomies:” chaotic, self-organizing categorization schemes that grew from the bottom up.
What Happened to Tagging? | JSTOR Daily Alexandra Samuel 2019
slumry commented on the word folksonomy
I love the concept--I love to consider how things can be classified--I once thought of being an indexer, but I am afraid it would have driven me over the edge.
June 14, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word folksonomy
There is something compulsive about tagging!
October 6, 2007
664815409 commented on the word folksonomy
Great word, and sounds like a song by Prince. But it's not.
November 9, 2009