"Despite its intrinsic anarchist nature, the dynamics of this terminology system spontaneously leads to patterns of terminology common to the whole community or to subgroups of it."
Folksonomies könnten ähnlich wie natürliche Sprachen wachsen, sich verändern und sich verbreiten. Die Tagger sollten sich höchtens locker an einigen wenigen, einfachen Konventionen orientieren.
Eingehender Vergleich der BM-Tools, Fokus auf akademsichen Nutzern. "In many ways these new tools resemble blogs stripped down to the bare essentials. Here the essential unit of information is a link, not a story"
"This presentation explores the results of the lexical analysis of various tag collections (...). What can we learn from human-generated metadata to help make automatically-generated metadata more usable, correct, efficient, and most importantly, humane?"
"This study surveyed the folksonomy as a complex network. The result indicates that the network, which is composed of the tags from the folksonomy, displays both properties of small world and scale-free."
"(...) 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."