"Tagging in and of its self is a helpful step up from no tagging, but is no where near as beneficial as opening the tagging to all. Folksonomy tagging can provide connections across cultures and disciplines (...)"
"Tagging works because it strikes a balance between the individual and social. It serves the individual motive of remembering, and forms a ad-hoc social groups around it."
"a blog dedicated to folksonomies and reflections on the social tagging paradigm (...) I'm currently an LIS postgraduate, studying and working in London, UK. (...) Nick Woolley" - With bibliography on folksonomies!
"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."
"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"
"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."
"They are built to be human-usable (...) are targeted primarily for storage/retrieval of personal information and serendipitous discovery of group information . (...) The development communities for each are abuzz with ideas for exploiting the structure"
"Zum einen soll Studentinnen und Studenten ein praxisorientierter Einstieg in die aktive Teilnahme an der Wikipedia geboten werden. Zum anderen widmet sich das Projekt dem Auf- und Ausbau der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Universitäten und Wikipedia."
I. Blümel, S. Dietze, L. Heller, R. Jäschke, and M. Mehlberg. (2014)12th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems, \CRIS\ 2014Managing data intensive science – The role of Research Information Systems in realising the digital agenda.
A. Genest, and L. Heller. Kooperation versus Eigenprofil? 31. Arbeits- und Fortbildungstagung der ASpB e.V., Sektion 5 im Deutschen Bibliotheksverband, 25. bis 28. September 2007 in der Technischen Universität Berlin, page 137--146. Karlsruhe, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken, Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe, (2009)