Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Happy Thanksgiving! MORE
On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G??nter Technorati Tags: art , museums , net2 , tag , nptech , ict , ngo , folksonomyWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin. RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. MORE
What you are describing are the pros/cons and differences between taxonomies and folksonomies, centralized versus decentralized, controlled vocabularies versus tags versus search. With the CSE, there are NO artificial distinctions between a taxonomy and a folksonomy. MORE
The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). MORE
Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. MORE
What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. MORE
What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How do you manage the needed iterative, cycles of divergence and convergence to make folksonomies take off? An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. MORE
Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Source: Powerhouse Museum. MORE
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. The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. MORE
Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit. MORE
Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. And to be sure, there have been plenty of folksonomic success stories. Sites like Flickr (which lets users post and tag images) and del.icio.us (which does the same. MORE
s a folksonomy. Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! MORE
Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Most of the time this blog focuses on individual aspects of 2.0 thinking or applications. But every once in a while, it's nice to go back to the big picture. MORE
So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. MORE
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'). I guess I would say, as a rule of thumb, that you pass from 'network' (autonomous action, folksonomy) to 'group' (collaborative action, vocabulary or taxonomy) when somebody says, "You're doing that wrong." MORE
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? MORE
They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. MORE
Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" and mention "folksonomy." MORE
The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy??? folksonomy??? More will be said about this in the section on network effects, but for now it is sufficient to note that there is a distinction between a folksonomy (a collection of tags created by an individual for their own personal use) and a collabulary (a collective vocabulary). MORE
Taxonomy Folksonomy Cook Ebook View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: dowjones folksonomy ). That's the powerpoint version - hard to read, so download the PDF - it's more than just eye candy. Here's an interview with her on Read/Write Talk MORE
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. Gavin started this all off by posting a good and interesting set of questions about the efficiency of folksonomies. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 MORE
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. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Here's an example of "social search" in action. both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. MORE
Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 If you've been reading this blog from the beginning, this post may look like deja vu. I've tried the "rate this post" before. MORE
" Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. " In an earlier summary , a key theme emerged -- the ways that folksonomy and taxonomy can produce best of both worlds results. The NpTech Tag discussion continues. Gavin's original post is here (Gavin, please track back to this and approve your track backs if you are moderating them). MORE
You have to be rather anal or committed or a folksonomy addict or ??? Alan Levine has a hypothesis on tagging here. d be curious sometime to look more at the amount of tagging that really goes on. I am convinced it is from a relatively small number of individuals (but bless them for being tag-nostic). m not comparing the tagging rate per conference, but realizing that??? very few people tag. I am not convinced that tagging is anywhere close to a tipping point. MORE
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. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. MORE
and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Download schachter.wmv. Last night I attended Berkman special evening event titled ??? Future of Tagging ??? with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger , Berkman Fellow, who moderated. MORE
Digital Diner Gavin Clabaugh's irregular blog on irregular things. Comments Posts Home Some Stuff About Me Contents & Site Map Disclaimer Lifestream Kissing the Frog Kermit’s a liar. You can’t trust a frog (and any princess worth her salt could tell you that). MORE
A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. That was the name of the session for this Thursday's Bloggers Meeting at the Berkman Center. The moderator was Shimon Rura. The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. MORE
Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. What purpose do folksonomies serve? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy." Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. I've asked Marshall to put a forward on the old feed. But is it fixed? MORE
particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Catching up September 1, 2006 It’s not until I’ve spent a little time reading a wider array of nptech blogs that I have realized how much has changed in the last year or so, since I was last really imbedded in the field. MORE
Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. MORE
This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. I got dissapproving comments by half a dozen readers - typical was a comment from Mike at Mind Valley who says: I am surprised that you doubt the business value of tagging and social bookmarking. MORE
include, depending on one’s definitions, many new kinds of communities such as MySpace and Flickr , blogging, podcasting and vlogging, tagging and folksonomies, RSS feeds, content rich web applications using technologies like Flash and Java, open standards and APIs that allow seamless connections between different web applications, new kinds of user interfaces using AJAX, and different design aesthetics. First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. MORE
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology. MORE
they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media has written an excellent post on " Why Nonprofits Should Use Tags." " Ruby suggests there are two main reasons why bloggers use tags: 1. Other bloggers do it, and 2. So tags can be a great way to encourage blogging about your issues. MORE
Folksonomy Related Topics Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 10, 2007
Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" and mention "folksonomy."
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 6, 2007
The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy??? folksonomy??? More will be said about this in the section on network effects, but for now it is sufficient to note that there is a distinction between a folksonomy (a collection of tags created by an individual for their own personal use) and a collabulary (a collective vocabulary).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2005
On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G??nter Technorati Tags: art , museums , net2 , tag , nptech , ict , ngo , folksonomyWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin. RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 6, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. Gavin started this all off by posting a good and interesting set of questions about the efficiency of folksonomies. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology.
Gavin's Digital Diner
DECEMBER 31, 2006
Digital Diner Gavin Clabaugh's irregular blog on irregular things. Comments Posts Home Some Stuff About Me Contents & Site Map Disclaimer Lifestream Kissing the Frog Kermit’s a liar. You can’t trust a frog (and any princess worth her salt could tell you that).
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. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Here's an example of "social search" in action. both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Source: Powerhouse Museum.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 3, 2007
Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. What purpose do folksonomies serve? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy." Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. I've asked Marshall to put a forward on the old feed. But is it fixed?
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. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How do you manage the needed iterative, cycles of divergence and convergence to make folksonomies take off? An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2007
" Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. " In an earlier summary , a key theme emerged -- the ways that folksonomy and taxonomy can produce best of both worlds results. The NpTech Tag discussion continues. Gavin's original post is here (Gavin, please track back to this and approve your track backs if you are moderating them).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2006
You have to be rather anal or committed or a folksonomy addict or ??? Alan Levine has a hypothesis on tagging here. d be curious sometime to look more at the amount of tagging that really goes on. I am convinced it is from a relatively small number of individuals (but bless them for being tag-nostic). m not comparing the tagging rate per conference, but realizing that??? very few people tag. I am not convinced that tagging is anywhere close to a tipping point.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 24, 2006
Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Happy Thanksgiving!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 7, 2005
they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media has written an excellent post on " Why Nonprofits Should Use Tags." " Ruby suggests there are two main reasons why bloggers use tags: 1. Other bloggers do it, and 2. So tags can be a great way to encourage blogging about your issues.
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'). I guess I would say, as a rule of thumb, that you pass from 'network' (autonomous action, folksonomy) to 'group' (collaborative action, vocabulary or taxonomy) when somebody says, "You're doing that wrong."
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. The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 9, 2006
include, depending on one’s definitions, many new kinds of communities such as MySpace and Flickr , blogging, podcasting and vlogging, tagging and folksonomies, RSS feeds, content rich web applications using technologies like Flash and Java, open standards and APIs that allow seamless connections between different web applications, new kinds of user interfaces using AJAX, and different design aesthetics. First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit.
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?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 9, 2005
They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Catching up September 1, 2006 It’s not until I’ve spent a little time reading a wider array of nptech blogs that I have realized how much has changed in the last year or so, since I was last really imbedded in the field.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 7, 2008
Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 If you've been reading this blog from the beginning, this post may look like deja vu. I've tried the "rate this post" before.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 26, 2005
A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. That was the name of the session for this Thursday's Bloggers Meeting at the Berkman Center. The moderator was Shimon Rura. The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 26, 2005
and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Download schachter.wmv. Last night I attended Berkman special evening event titled ??? Future of Tagging ??? with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger , Berkman Fellow, who moderated.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 1, 2005
So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 26, 2007
Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 30, 2007
Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Most of the time this blog focuses on individual aspects of 2.0 thinking or applications. But every once in a while, it's nice to go back to the big picture.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2005
This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. I got dissapproving comments by half a dozen readers - typical was a comment from Mike at Mind Valley who says: I am surprised that you doubt the business value of tagging and social bookmarking.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 13, 2007
s a folksonomy. Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN !
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
NOVEMBER 15, 2006
What you are describing are the pros/cons and differences between taxonomies and folksonomies, centralized versus decentralized, controlled vocabularies versus tags versus search. With the CSE, there are NO artificial distinctions between a taxonomy and a folksonomy.
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