A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined.
Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? - 0 views
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So what exactly are tags? A simple definition would be to say that tags are keywords, category names, or metadata. In essence, a tag is simply a freely chosen set of textual keywords. However, because tags are not created by information specialists, they do not at present follow any ubiquitous formal guidelines. This means that items can be categorised with any word that defines a relationship between the online resource and a concept in the user's mind. Any number of words might be chosen, some of which are obvious representations, others making less sense outside the tag author's context.
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Improving Tag Literacy Given that there is already a movement towards convergence of tags, how can we foster this trend? At the moment there are two key ways in which the metadata created in folksonomies could be improved to aid searching: Educating users to add "better" tags Improving the systems to allow "better" tags to be added Educating users Currently most users don't give much thought to the way they tag resources, and bad or "sloppy" tags are ten-a-penny in folksonomies. The main casualties are usually enumerated as follows: Misspelt tags (e.g., libary, libray) Badly encoded tags, such as unlikely compound word groupings (e.g.,TimBernersLee) Tags that do not follow convention in issues such as case and number; singular versus plural form (e.g., apple, apples) Personal tags that are without meaning to the wider community (e.g., mydog) Single-use tags that appear only once in the database. (e.g., billybobsdog) In order for folksonomies to offer much more in the way of social value, many feel that tag creation needs to becomes a lot more proficient; but are the problems really those described above?
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