Folksonomy folktales In reviewing articles about folksonomies and taxonomies, I found that while there were some interesting experiments in combining the two, most writings repeated the same myths, ...

Folksonomy Folktales 2010 During a recent project, I had occasion to review the latest writings about folksonomies in general, and comparing folksonomies and taxonomies in particular. I’ve been a bit ...

This is a guest post from one of the world's leading taxonomy and folksonomy experts Thomas Vander Wal, who can be found at Infocloud Solutions.Thomas has very kindly taken some time to share some ...

Berkman Fellow David Weinberger has been giving a lot of thought to folksonomies while working on his upcoming book, Everything is Miscellaneous. In the following essay, he's written about the ...

Topping the list of words most likely to make web users "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard" was folksonomy, a term for a web classification system.

Some think Technorati's folksonomy will get bogged down in spam. But others say it's a terrific system that brings together the tagging systems of several popular services. View Slideshow If the ...

A folksonomy, on the other hand, arises spontaneously as Net users encounter information, think about what it means, and tag it with descriptive words. Then software makes the information ...

I'm interested in how email trails fit into folksonomy. Anyway, here, in no particular order, are stories that have been e-mailed to me by news organizations, friends, etc.

Folksonomy is a grass-roots way of classifying content. It's more accessible than using formal taxonomies but it's not really clear whether it would eventually lead to a standardisation of terms.