Folksonomy: A Wrapper’s Delight - Thomas Vander Wal · Broad Folksonomy Many people tagging one...
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Folksonomy: A Wrapper’s Delight Thomas Vander Wal IA Summit 2005 – Montreal
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Folksonomy:A Wrapper’s Delight
Thomas Vander WalIA Summit 2005 – Montreal
Folksonomy Taggingnot Taxing
MetadataRelatively hardExpensiveResource intensiveNot easily emergentCan be hierarchical
TagsRelatively easyGenerated by users forfreeUsers have animmediate self interestUsers find instant payoffsEmergentFlat
Broad FolksonomyMany people tagging one objectPeople other than the content owner taggingin their own vocabularyBuilds trends, but also builds options
Power CurveLong-tail
Provides cross-discipline and cross-culturalopportunities for understandingInformal terms can wrap to formal termsProvides opportunities to find emergentvocabularies and emergent trends
Narrow FolksonomyContent owner tags objectA few others tag directly at the objectSocial tagging not readily exposedWorks well were the object does nothave text that is searchable or easilyfoundCan be emergentTrends not easily seen
