Taxonomy, folksonomy, tagsonomy
Posted on:: January 3rd, 2005
Peterme points to a terrific essay by Adam Mathes titled “Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata” and sparks a discussion of whether “folksonomy” is a good or right term for the sort of thing that del.icio.us does. I happen to think it’s a keeper, but I also like Kirk Scott‘s “tagsonomy.” [Note: Jon Lebkowsky tells me that he was actually the one who came up with it. Kevin Marks seems to have come up with independently.]
Categories: Uncategorized dw
This is pretty interesting stuff. I haven’t been interested in flickr’s user tagging because I see it as a variation of author-created metatags. And I confess I haven’t explored del.icio.us; guess I’d better do that.
Given my bias for sites built from the bottom up, del.icio.us and its kinfolk are definitely a step in the right direction.
Yet they still fall short of that ill-defined (and possibly hopeless) pipe dream that keeps bouncing around my head: Dynamic sites that organize themselves based upon a particular user’s preferences and demonstrated browsing and searching methods. Hmmmm…
Another resource you might want to explore, btw, is the archive for IA SIG of ASIS. It’s searchable.
http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/
Making use of tags and tagsonomies
Technorati really have been busy recently. As well as the new features I mentioned last week, they have now introduce a new tag search facility which allows you to search for posts that have been marked with a Technorati…