folksonomies

The foundation of social tagging systems are so-called folksonomies, which describe how users (folks) tag resources (e.g. photos, videos, publications, etc.)

A Moot of Folksonomies glyn moody 2007

These days, a growing number of sites whose content is user-created rely on tagging systems, also known as folksonomies, for the added value Butterfield is talking about.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Folks & Folksonomy - tagging the Web 2005

Web 2.0, characterized by features such as tagging, social networks, and user-­created taxonomies of content called "folksonomies," added a new layer of interactivity, represented by sites such as Flickr, Del. icio.us, and Wikipedia.

Archive 2007-03-01 KaneCitizen 2007

Web 2.0, characterized by features such as tagging, social networks, and user-­created taxonomies of content called "folksonomies," added a new layer of interactivity, represented by sites such as Flickr, Del. icio.us, and Wikipedia.

Tech Review Article on Semantic Web KaneCitizen 2007

Yahoo's game of photo tag -- Stefanie Olsen, Cnet Mar 22 -- Discusses the free tagging of photos at Flickr, the online photo sharing service that Yahoo just bought, and the possible expansion of such "folksonomies" to a "global categorization of information".

Internet News: Search Technology Archives 2009

The trend toward socially generated online taxonomies, or "folksonomies," is a retreat from the principle of literary warrant.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

The trend toward socially generated online taxonomies, or "folksonomies," is a retreat from the principle of literary warrant.

Literary Warrant 2007

Even the mis-named "folksonomies", while not actually a _controlled_ vocabularly, are a topic of excitement precisely becuase simple keyword searching of source text is not sufficient.

The Future of the Catalog David Bigwood 2006

SKOS Core is a simple, flexible and extensible language for expressing in a machine-understandable form the structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, 'folksonomies', other types of controlled vocabulary, and also concept schemes embedded in glossaries and terminologies.

SKOS Documents from the W3C David Bigwood 2005

SKOS Core is a simple, flexible and extensible language for expressing in a machine-understandable form the structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, 'folksonomies', other types of controlled vocabulary, and also concept schemes embedded in glossaries and terminologies.

Archive 2005-11-27 David Bigwood 2005

Tagging systems were “folksonomies:” chaotic, self-organizing categorization schemes that grew from the bottom up.

What Happened to Tagging? | JSTOR Daily Alexandra Samuel 2019