Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata - 1 views
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This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.
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metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation
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creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies
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