Social tagging, Folksonomy, Tag gardening, Emergent semantics, Power tags, Tagcare, Knowledge organization system, Knowledge representation, Personomy, Isabella Peters, Katrin Weller
On the “social web” or “web2.0″, where user participation is entirely voluntarily, User Motivation has been identified as a key factor in the mechanisms contributing to the success of tagging systems. Web researchers are trying to identify the reasons why tagging systems work for a couple of years now, evident in, for example, the organization of a panel at CHI 2006 and a number of conferences and workshops on this topic.
On the “social web” or “web2.0″, where user participation is entirely voluntarily, User Motivation has been identified as a key factor in the mechanisms contributing to the success of tagging systems. Web researchers are trying to identify the reasons why tagging systems work for a couple of years now, evident in, for example, the organization of a panel at CHI 2006 and a number of conferences and workshops on this topic.
"über einen begrenzten Zeitraum eine Teilmenge der im EconBiz-Fachinformationsführer enthaltenen Internetquellen in Social-Bookmarking-Webseiten angeboten werden. Ziel ist es Erkenntnisse darüber zu gewinnen"
D-Lib Magazine, April 2005, Volume 11 Number 4, ISSN 1082-9873
Social Bookmarking Tools (I), A General Review
Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott
Nature Publishing Group
{t.hammond, t.hannay, b.lund, j.scott}@nature.com
Creation of Folksonomy Term
On July 23, 2004 in the IA Institute (then called the Asylomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIFIA)) closed list serve Gene Smith asked, "Some of you might have noticed services like Furl, Flickr and Del.icio.us using user-defined labels or tags to organize and share information.... Is there a name for this kind of informal social classification?". After a few other people answered some other related questions Eric Scheid of Ironclad Information Architecture responded with "folk classification".
On July 24, 2004 I responded just after that with, "So the user-created bottom-up categorical structure development with an emergent thesaurus would become a Folksonomy?".
I am a fan of the word folk when talking about regular people. Eric put my mind in the framework with one of my favorite terms. I was also thinking that if you took "tax" (the work portion) of taxonomy and replaced it with something anybody could do you would get a folksonomy. I knew the etymology of this word was pulling is two parts from different core sources (Germanic and Greek), but that seemed fitting looking at the early Flickr and del.icio.us.
On August 3, 2004 Gene Smith posted in his blog Folksonomy: Social Classification. This blog post received a lot of traffic and opened up the term folksonomy for others outside the closed IA listserve.
Definition of Folksonomy
Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrieval. The tagging is done in a social environment (usually shared and open to others). Folksonomy is created from the act of tagging by the person consuming the information.
The value in this external tagging is derived from people using their own vocabulary and adding explicit meaning, which may come from inferred understanding of the information/object. People are not so much categorizing, as providing a means to connect items (placing hooks) to provide their meaning in their own understanding.
In a few conversations around folksonomy and tagging in 2004 I stated, "folksonomy is tagging that works". This is still a strong belief the three tenets of a folksonomy: 1) tag; 2) object being tagged; and 3) identity, are core to disambiguation of tag terms and provide for a rich understanding of the object being tagged.
By: Thomas Vander Wal
On: 2 February 2007
Daniela Barbosa, who is the business development manager for Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions has written a fabulous eBook explaining how to mix taxonomies built by professionals and folksonomies, which let users tag content as they see fit. On one hand you have a controlled system. On the other, you are putting the power to organize within reach of the masses, but this can get chaotic. How do you reconcile these two seemingly disparate goals?
Daniela Barbosa, who is the business development manager for Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions has written a fabulous eBook explaining how to mix taxonomies built by professionals and folksonomies, which let users tag content as they see fit
Daniela Barbosa, who is the business development manager for Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions has written a fabulous eBook explaining how to mix taxonomies built by professionals and folksonomies, which let users tag content as they see fit
This document pulls together bits of conversations and ideas I wrote regarding folksonomy on listserves, e-mail, in my blogs and in blog comments on other's sites in 2004.
Ein englischer Text von Adam Mathes mit den Themen:The Creation of Metadata, Tagging Content in Del.icio.us and Flickr, From Tags to Folksonomy, Why Folksonomies Work and Areas For Further Research
EulerView incorporates a non-hierarchical classication
structure to enable enhanced resource management. We apply
the EulerView concept to the use of urls, constructing eli.icio.us
which is a tool that realizes the EulerView concept and integrates
it with del.icio.us. Currently, in del.icio.us, users can tag urls and
browse for similar urls and the results can be displayed via an
alphabetically sorted tag cloud. As well as facilitating easy tag
management, using an EulerView display has the advantage that
the user can use this representation for both tagging urls and for
searching or browsing tasks, thus reducing any cognitive dif