1. What is a folksonomy?
From: Wayne, G. et al (2006). Among the new words. American Speech 81(3)p.302.
"folksonomy n [folks + taxonomy] Informal method of categorizing digital media and data using user-originated tags"
Folksonomy began with sites such as Flickr and Delicious but is now spreading into previously controlled language systems including library catalogues. Not sure how successful this will be. Librarians find stuff because they know the language to use. Possibly it will make searches easier for students - the jury is still out.
From: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/02/66456?currentPage=all
"It's very much people tagging information so that they can come back to it themselves or so that others with the same vocabulary can find it," said Thomas Vander Wal, the information architect credited with coining the term "folksonomy."
"To me, they're a great new organization tool for applications and large content sites," said Matt Haughey, the founder of MetaFilter. "Tags are great because you throw caution to the wind, forget about whittling down everything into a distinct set of categories and instead let folks loose categorizing their own stuff on their own terms."
From: http://www.foaf-project.org/about
"FOAF is a simple technology that makes it easier to share and use information about people and their activities (eg. photos, calendars, weblogs), to transfer information between Web sites, and to automatically extend, merge and re-use it online."
Because I'm a visual person the video on this page helped explain a few things to me: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/
From: Wayne, G. et al (2006). Among the new words. American Speech 81(3)p.302.
"folksonomy n [folks + taxonomy] Informal method of categorizing digital media and data using user-originated tags"
Folksonomy began with sites such as Flickr and Delicious but is now spreading into previously controlled language systems including library catalogues. Not sure how successful this will be. Librarians find stuff because they know the language to use. Possibly it will make searches easier for students - the jury is still out.
From: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/02/66456?currentPage=all
"It's very much people tagging information so that they can come back to it themselves or so that others with the same vocabulary can find it," said Thomas Vander Wal, the information architect credited with coining the term "folksonomy."
"To me, they're a great new organization tool for applications and large content sites," said Matt Haughey, the founder of MetaFilter. "Tags are great because you throw caution to the wind, forget about whittling down everything into a distinct set of categories and instead let folks loose categorizing their own stuff on their own terms."
From: http://www.foaf-project.org/about
"FOAF is a simple technology that makes it easier to share and use information about people and their activities (eg. photos, calendars, weblogs), to transfer information between Web sites, and to automatically extend, merge and re-use it online."
Because I'm a visual person the video on this page helped explain a few things to me: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/
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