Shirky begründet, warum es z.B. beim social bookmarking sinnvoll ist, a posteriori einfache Begriffe als Tags zu verwenden - statt zu versuchen, eine übergreifende hierarchische Organisation der links zu schaffen.
Diigo is about "Social Annotation", a superset of social bookmarking. We believe that the social annotation service provided by Diigo can really enhance your experience for online browsing and interactions, and for information gathering and sharing.
" (...) less than 1% of queries even use more than a single tag. (...) Tagging is mostly (...) a way for people to recall things, what they were thinking about when they saved it. Fairly useful for recall, OK for discovery, terrible for distribution (...)
"controlled vocabularies often miss out on input from content authors and become rigid (...); folksonomies will begin to break down for the reasons mentioned above. Treating them as major parts of a single metada ecology might expose a useful symbiosis"
"Sybilla Poortman en Gerard Bierens (...) nemen de nieuwe 'sociale' tools onder de loep met aandacht voor toepassingsmogelijkheden in de bibliotheekomgeving. En ook: folksonomy versus taxonomie, samen door één deur (...)?"
"(...) analyzes folksonomy metadata for hierarchal semantic relationships via a content analysis of approximately 2000 folksonomy tags in over 600 individual entries. (...) The results indicate that hierarchical relationships are part of Folksonomies."
A. Mathes. Computer Mediated Communication, LIS590CMC (Doctoral Seminar), Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, December, (2004)
C. Schmitz, A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, and G. Stumme. Data Science and Classification. Proceedings of the 10th IFCS Conf., page 261--270. Heidelberg, Springer, (July 2006)