The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging - 0 views
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Mathieu Plourde on 30 Jan 12"As users continue to add tags, a grassroots organizational scheme begins to emerge which has been dubbed by information architect Thomas Vander Wal, to be a folksonomy. A combination of "folks" and "taxonomy", the term has come to mean a non-hierarchical ontology that is created as a natural result of user-added metadata or tagging."