Folksonomies: power to the people (p)(f)

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Bethers1919 on 2008-09-01 - Tags folksonomy , tagging , folksonomies , taxonomy , metadata , socialsoftware , tags , classification
Mdrechsler on 2008-08-01 - Tags web2.0 , taxonomy , tagging , folksonomies
Wisdomboat on 2008-07-20 - Tags no_tag
Gardnerr on 2008-05-23 - Tags social bookmarking , folksonomies , tagging , tags@bath , eatbath
Laramie on 2008-02-20 - Tags metadata , controlled_vocabularies

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on 2006-07-31 by wenxin

a great title.

on 2006-08-04 by mattmcalister

The issue is whether the traditional organizational schemes used so far are suitable to address the classification needs of fast-proliferating, new information sources or if, to achieve this goal, better aggregation and concept matching tools are required

on 2006-10-25 by braincode

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Traditional hierarchies for organizing information (or reality) will not be replaced by tags, but through tagging we are finding new ways of thinking about classification and new applications for organizing and sharing knowledge

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While some distinguished information architects are still skeptical about social tagging, there are good reasons to anticipate broad adoption of this approach. The reason is not that folksonomies are better than controlled vocabularies or expert judgment. Well-designed metadata is better than folksonomies on traditional axes of comparison. However, the environment makes the difference: it does not matter whether we "accept" folksonomies, because we are not going to be given that choice. The mass amateurization of Web publishing makes the mass amateurization of cataloguing a forced move. Folksonomies are a trade-off between traditional structured centralized classification and no classification or metadata at all. And they are the best we actually have.

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Folksonomies are a forced move.