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	Folksonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A folksonomy is most notably contrasted from a taxonomy in that the authors of the labeling system are often the main users (and sometimes originators) of the content to which the labels are applied.
		Folksonomies are generated by people who may have spent a great deal of time interacting with the content they tag and may lack the objectivity or perspective to properly describe or tag it in relation to objects they are not as familiar with or know nothing about.
		Folksonomy should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, a cultural practice that has been widely documented in anthropological work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folksonomy (1611 words)

	Joho the Blog: What is a folksonomy anyway?
		In short a folksonomy is a set of uncontrolled tags provided by individuals for their own retrieval purposes of that object and these tags are shared publicly.
		The discussion that triggered the coining of folksonomy was what made del.icio.us and flickr (the two initial examples we looked at in the IAI listserve) different from all the tagging efforts that came before them (tagging seems to have been around on the web since the 1997 or 98).
		Folksonomy has three data points that can be used to build solutions to the problems (the three data points are outlined in the Broad Folksonomy - 1) clear understanding of the object being tagged, 2) the individual tag used, and 3) a distinct identity of the person tagging.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/what_is_a_folksonomy_anyway.html (3558 words)

	The Community Engine Blog: folksonomy Archives
		Folksonomy is one means of self-expression in a group, a sort of: “let me share with you my vision of the world by tagging parts of it”.
		Rather than just focusing on folksonomy for navigation, it may be more useful to adopt the perspective that folksonomy is one means of self-expression in a group, a sort of: “let me share with you my vision of the world by tagging parts of it”.
		Folksonomy is an emerging practice on the Internet where people tag digital artifacts (e.g., pictures, bookmarks) with their own labels and then share them.
	thecommunityengine.com /home/archives/tags/folksonomy (6479 words)

	Folksonomy :: Archives :: Personal InfoCloud
		The folksonomy can even sit side-by-side with a taxonomy as the folksonomy is built from real people placing terms that they call things and their context on items they want to hold on to.
		In folksonomies we have three distinct data elements: the tag, a clear understanding of the object being tagged, and an identity of the person doing the tagging (this may be a real or cloaked identity).
		Folksonomy tagging can provide connections across cultures and disciplines (an knowledge management consultant can find valuable information from an information architect because one object is tagged by both communities using their own differing terms of practice).
	www.personalinfocloud.com /folksonomy (3937 words)

	Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
		These folksonomies are simply the set of terms that a group of users tagged content with, they are not a predetermined set of classification terms or labels.
		Although a folksonomy is not a controlled vocabulary, and certainly does have limitations, there are important strengths that are important to understanding the appeal and utility of such systems.
		While one could evaluate a folksonomy in a system like Delicious or Flickr by using specific queries from users, and then evaluating which documents tagged with keywords they choose are relevant to the query, that would ignore the broader set of browsing activities that the system seems to be stronger in.
	www.adammathes.com /academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html (4785 words)

	Folksonomy. Many-to-Many:
		Folksonomy, a new term for socially created, typically flat name-spaces of the del.icio.us ilk, coined by Thomas Vander Wal.
		There is a loss in folksonomies, of course, but also gain, so the question is one of relative value.
		One of the biggest benefits of a folksonomy (I think) is how it extends the personal information architecture we all maintain (in varying degrees to do our work and keep track of the bits we like) into the social space.
	www.corante.com /many/archives/2004/08/25/folksonomy.php (1382 words)

	QTSaver: Folksonomy
		Folksonomy, a portmanteau word combining "folk" and "taxonomy," refers to the collaborative but unsophisticated way in which information is being categorized on the web.
		So "folksonomy" literally means "people's classification management".The features that would later be termed "folksonomy" appeared in del.icio.us in late 2003 and were quickly replicated in other social software.Thomas Vander Wal has stated that folksonomy is a subset of tagging and it is "tagging that works".
		A recent neologism, folksonomy, should not be confused with Folk Taxonomy (though it is obviously a contraction of the two words).Those who support scientific taxonomies have recently criticized folksonomies by dubbing them fauxonomies.
	qtsaver.blogspot.com /2006/02/folksonomy.html (918 words)

	Folksonomy - KerimsWiki
		Although the term folksonomy owes its roots to the anthropological study of “folk taxonomies,” popular in the 1960s, it is a new term, coined by blogger Thomas Vander Wal to describe an emergent, decentralized approach to classifying information on the Internet.
		As opposed to previous systems, which required each piece of information to be classified by a professional knowledge manager, as in the Dewey decimal system used by libraries, a folksonomy asks each user to classify information as they see fit, sharing the resulting classifications between users.
		Folksonomies are inherently messier than the classification schemes a librarian or professional archivist might use; however, the explosion of digital information online means it is often simply too costly to pay people to do the classification.
	wiki.oxus.net /wiki/Folksonomy (894 words)

	Folksonomy Definition and Wikipedia :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net
		I hope folksonomy still has value as a word to point something different in the world of tagging than the mess that went before it.
		Using folksonomy and defining it to include the mess that was all of tagging and is still prevalent in many new tools dilutes the value.
		Folksonomy Is Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrival.
	www.vanderwal.net /random/entrysel.php?blog=1750 (780 words)

	Folksonomy < Codev < TWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		The folksonomy is a means for people to tag objects (web pages, photos, videos, podcasts, etc., essentially anything that is internet addressable) using their own vocabulary so that it is easy for them to refind that information again.
		The folksonomy is most often also social so that others that use the same vocabulary will be able to find the object as well.
		The organic system of organization developing in Delicious and Flickr was called a "folksonomy" by Thomas Vander Wal in a discussion on an information architecture mailing list.
	twiki.org /cgi-bin/view/Codev/Folksonomy (1541 words)

	i d e a n t: Tag Literacy
		Another difference between folksonomies and structured taxonomies that might not be so obvious is the role of human collaboration in their definition.
		Folksonomies, on the other hand, do not require consensus as much as they measure the consensus already established around the use of certain words.
		Clearly, there are politics in folksonomies, but we need to uncover them by expanding the sort of questions we are accustomed to asking for deconstructing political power (questions such as the ones danah boyd asks here) with questions that take into account the social agency that the code assumes on behalf of people.
	ideant.typepad.com /ideant/2005/04/tag_literacy.html (4980 words)

	Library clips :: What qualifies a folksonomy? :: May :: 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		In a narrow folksonomy users can only tag their own contributions…Flickr is like this, but of late it has allowed others to also tag each others content (only if the creator of the item allows it), this is more inline with a broad folksonomy like del.icio.us…this was stated in section 2.1.3 of this paper.
		Whereas in a narrow folksonomy (like Flickr) it isn’t like this, if you are browsing Flickr and feel you want to bookmark someone elses item, you can’t unless the owner allows you…but then the purpose of Flickr is different than del.icio.us, as the content is more often user created/owned.
		In a narrow folksonomy a tag or index term doesn’t emerge for the one item…the only thing it does is allow users to tag items instead of having to choose from a fixed set, or letting a central body do the indexing full stop.
	libraryclips.blogsome.com /2006/05/27/what-qualifies-a-folksonomy (1056 words)

	Folksonomy: social classification (Atomiq)
		I think folksonomies can work well for certain kinds of information because they offer a small reward for using one of the popular categories (such as your photo appearing on a popular page).
		Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using simple tags in a flat namespace.
		I really tried not to post about it, but Folksonomy is stronger than me: it is in everywhere.
	atomiq.org /archives/2004/08/folksonomy_social_classification.html (1548 words)

	Tags & Folksonomies - What are they, and why should you care? \| Threadwatch.org
		Tags, or folksonomies are actually a lot simpler than much of the acedemic debate surrounding them.
		Folksonomies are a forced move: A response to Liz
		My experience with folksonomies, ad hoc user-generated tags for classifying web content, is that they help you understand something in the context of the individual who created them.
	www.threadwatch.org /node/1206 (2652 words)

	Joho the Blog: Folksonomy 2x2
		You get folksonomies when people are tagging stuff — whether it's their own or other's — in public.
		In his post on broad and narrow folksonomies, he defines a broad folksonomy as one that "has many people tagging the same object and every person can tag the object with their own tags" (= del.icio.us).
		I have just implemented a folksonomy, it is still pretty much in its infancy and potentially buggy, however if anyone wants to try it, it is at http://www.bigblogzoo.com.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/003840.html (1232 words)

	westwood » folksonomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects.
		Folksonomies are user-generated and therefore inexpensive to implement, advocates of folksonomy believe that it provides a useful low-cost alternative to more traditional, institutionality supported taxonomies or controlled vocabularies.
		An employeed-generated folksonomy could be seen as a "emergent enterprise taxonomy".
	westwood.wikispaces.com /folksonomy (639 words)

	realitylab » Folksonomy
		Perhaps the greatest benefit of folksonomy is its relevance in the information retrieval sense of the term — that is, the capacity of its tags to describe the “aboutness” of an Internet resource.
		An employee-generated folksonomy could therefore be seen as an “emergent enterprise taxonomy“;.
		The result is a system that combines the benefits of folksonomies — low entry costs, a rich vocabulary that is broadly shared and comprehensible by the user base, and the capacity to respond quickly to language change — without the errors that inevitably arise in naive, unsupervised folksonomies.
	www.realitylab.at /wp/folksonomy (1731 words)

	InfoTangle :: The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging :: December :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Since a folksonomy arises as a result of user tagging, it is reflective of the way that they categorize information.
		Folksonomies give us a chance to observe how users tag their own resources as well as what kind of untraditional categories have surfaced.
		The folksonomy is a result of people tagging information/media for their own recall in a shared/open space.
	infotangle.blogsome.com /2005/12/07/the-hive-mind-folksonomies-and-user-based-tagging (5017 words)

	Word Spy - folksonomy
		Folksonomy is another example of the way in which the web 2.0 attempts to harness the collective intelligence of its users.
		The word "folksonomy" is a spin on the word "taxonomy" and refers to the collaborative way in which information is being categorised on the web.
		Instead of using a centralised form of classification, users are encouraged to assign freely chosen keywords to pieces of information or data, a process known as tagging.
	www.wordspy.com /words/folksonomy.asp (328 words)

	IA Summit Folksonomies Panel (Atomiq)
		In the case of del.icio.us the large content set is the web, but it could just as easily be a legal or medical database, an intranet or a staff directory.
		In fact, the folksonomy is a ridiculously low-cost kind of community that's nothing more than a beneficial side effect of people tagging documents for their own future recall.
		Yes, I'm biased, but, based on the notes I'm reading about the folksonomy discussion at ETech, the IA Summit panel on Social Classification was a far richer and more robust discussion (note: I was on the IA Summit panel).
	atomiq.org /archives/2005/03/ia_summit_folksonomies_panel.html (665 words)

	Cites & Insights 6:4: Folksonomy and Dichotomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		He’s probably the most prominent name in the “Folksonomy über alles” camp,” but his statements on the subject vary a lot in the extent to which he sees folksonomy as a universal solution and wholesale replacement for traditional classification schemes.
		Those who believe folksonomy is the only future seem to believe we’re all hot to tag, or at least most of us are.
		To some extent, it’s true that folksonomy doesn’t reduce the cost of identifying items so much as it shifts the cost—lowering the cost for those who might wish to identify, but increasing the cost (in time) for those searching.
	cites.boisestate.edu /v6i4a.htm (1599 words)

	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: E-conomy: New game of tagging may be "it"
		You assign it the tag "folksonomy" and post it on del.icio.us (note that the site is accessible simply by typing del.icio.us —; there's no www or.com).
		I chose the example of folksonomy because it actually exists on del.icio.us.
		Not only that, but del.icio.us is an example of folksonomy — a term coined specifically to describe collaborative categorization.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2002206710_paul14.html (672 words)

	Jim Phelps - IT Architect in Academia - folksonomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Note that the Folksonomy slides are from an Internet2 version of the talk and are more inclusive than the slides I used at U-Minn. Actually, I meant to grab these slides not the ones that I used.
		The point of a “Folksonomy” is that there are people - real live human flesh and blood - adding terms which provide social value and content evaluation.
		Folksonomies are about people, who have similar social knowledge, judging content and adding metadata based on their personal assessment.
	arch.doit.wisc.edu /jim/index.php/category/folksonomy (1268 words)

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