Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content
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Saved by 19 people (4 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-07-31
- Ludigertruda on 2008-09-15 - Tags DMAP , system_settings , ontologies , folksonomies , tagging , taxonomy , usability , design
- Bethers1919 on 2008-09-01 - Tags folksonomy , folksonomies , metadata
- Gertruda on 2008-04-24 - Tags a_STUDY
- Webleon on 2008-03-24 - Tags folksonomy
- Ethomsen on 2008-02-02 - Tags folksonomy , furl
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A taxonomy is a hierarchical tree structure such as those used in scientific
classification schemes
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Sites with folksonomies include two basic capabilities: they let users add
“tags” to information and they create navigational links out of those tags to
help users find and organize that information later.
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Not only are users able to organize their stuff according to their own rules,
but the information architects of the site can learn interesting things that a
taxonomy may not have illuminated
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Although taxonomies are common, it can be difficult for design teams to implement them. For one thing, taxonomies are very expensive to create and maintain, often involving month-long projects by several members of the team. For sites with thousands (or even millions) of pages, this Herculean task is sometimes never complete.
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One of the most promising features of folksonomies is that there is no disconnect between the user’s words and the words on the site: the
users words are the words on the site! Not only are users able to organize their stuff according to their own rules, but the information architects of the site can learn interesting things that a taxonomy may not have illuminated
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