Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 6, 2007
I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? What do those guidelines look like? But is efficiency the most important thing?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 7, 2007
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. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.
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