Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata - 0 views
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he overall costs for users of the system in terms of time and effort are far lower than systems that rely on complex hierarchal classification and categorization schemes. In addition to this structural difference, the context of the use in these systems is not just one of personal organization, but of communication and sharing. The near instant feedback in these systems leads to a communicative nature of tag use.
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Mathes, A. (2004). Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata.
