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FolksonomyPresented: Online Information 2005
London, UKby Thomas Vander Wal
30 December 2005
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Past Tensions❖ Taxonomy
❖ Relatively expensive
❖ Not exhaustive
❖ Not emergent
❖ Authoritative
❖ Limited view
❖ Tagging
❖ No certainty
❖ Often misleading
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Folksonomy
❖ Definition:
❖ Result of personal free tagging ofinformation and objects for one's ownretrieval
❖ Tagging in a social environment (shared andopen)
❖ Act of tagging is done by the personconsuming the information
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3 Data Points
❖ The distinct object being tagged
❖ Web page and/or media
❖ The individual tag
❖ The distinct person tagging
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Broad & Narrow Folksonomy
❖ Two types of Folksonomy
❖ Broad Folksonomy
❖ Narrow Folksonomy
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Broad Folksonomy
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Broad Folksonomy
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Narrow Folksonomy
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Advantages
“The beauty of tagging is that it taps into anexisting cognitive process without adding addmuch cognitive cost”
Rashmi Sinha, Researcher & Consultant, Uzantofrom: A cognitive analysis of tagging
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Advantages
“The beauty of tagging is that it taps into anexisting cognitive process without adding addmuch cognitive cost”
Rashmi Sinha, Researcher & Consultant, Uzantofrom: A cognitive analysis of tagging
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Advantages
“Folksonomy promises to be a significant tool tohelp people connect with museum collections....to bridge the gap between the views of thecurator and the personal perceptions of thepublic”
Jennifer Trant, Partner & Principal Consultiant, Archives & Museum Informatics, Steve Museum
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Projects
❖ Steve.museum (a consortium of U.S.museums)
❖ LibraryThing
❖ Del.icio.us
❖ Yahoo! MyWeb
❖ Flickr
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