Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2007
) asks: "Is there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working (scaling) to keep-up with the hyper-efficiency we see in peer-production systems? Can you point me to a working model." " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 7, 2007
Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. How are they different from taxonomies?
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 24, 2006
The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 7, 2007
report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. Tags work because they're so simple, but because they're so simple, they can be ambiguous. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???
Tech Soup
MAY 26, 2011
The Boomer Esiason Foundation raised thousands of dollars for cystic fibrosis research by working with corporate sponsors who donated five dollars for every tweet or Foursquare check-in charity supporters made that used the hashtag "#tackleCF." What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? You're It!
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Why are folksonomies useful? Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object.
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