What’s Folksonomy?

Social Bookmarking

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Stephan Ridgway, Workforce DevelopmentStephan Ridgway, Workforce Development

Paula Williams, Workforce DevelopmentPaula Williams, Workforce Development

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Session Overview/ How tagging can be used to manage, categorise and share online

resources within social networks/ Understand the difference between taxonomic and folksonomic

classification/ The personal (browser bookmarks) VS the Social (public tagging)/ The role of RSS in syndicating, mashingup and embedding tag feeds/ Overview of 2 social bookmarking tools http://del.icio.us/ &

http://www.diigo.com/  

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Tagging in Social NetworksHow tagging can be used to manage, categorise and share online resources within social networks

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Social Bookmarking - Short Version by Common Craft

Tagging in Social Networks

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Social Bookmarking/ A means for storing, organising, searching and managing favourite sites

on the web/ Organisation is based on ‘tags’ or key words (individual or group)/ Bookmarks are listed chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search

engine./ RSS enabled – subscribers can become aware of new bookmarks as

they are saved, shared and tagged by other users./ Newer tools have a range of other features such as ratings and

comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or social networking features

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User-Based Tagging and Folksonomies

Multiple concepts activated

Choose ONE of the activated concepts.

Categorize it!

Object worth remembering (article, image…)

Analysis-Paralysis!

Image by Rashmi Sinha

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Taxonomic vs FolksonomicTaxonomy - The science of classification (The experts do it)

From the greek verb: Taxis = "to classify“ Nomos = "law, science, economy“

Hierarchical-enumerative top down tree like structure

Hierarchies designed and maintained by experts

Repositories cataloged by experts eg. libraries

Structure imposed on the world of objects Centralised classification

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Taxonomic vs FolksonomicFolksonomy - Social classification (The Folks do it)

Folk + Taxonomy meaning that it emerges from the people

Open democatic system

Constantly evolving based on user interactions and consensus

tags capture the social fabic at that moment in time

Structure is an emergent property

Well suited to rapidly changing heterogeneous information sources such as the internet and social networks

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RSS (real simple syndication)

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Tagging & the wisdom of the crowds

Collective Intelligence

The Knowledge of Networks

Connectivism

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Social Bookmarking Services

http://www.diigo.com

http://del.icio.us

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Questions

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