Community, Folksonomy, Map and Taxonomy

NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

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? How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. social network and community sites. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

Guidelines

Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag

How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I’ll come back to it at the end to demonstrate how it maps to the example. 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?

Examples

Examples Design Folksonomy Virtual

Nonprofit Technology

NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

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