Folksonomy
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Definition
- Allows users to categorize and classify/arrange information using freely chosen keywords (tagging).
- Popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
- Tags also start with the pound sign (#). This is also referred to as hashtag.
- Basically, it allows users to add categories to their content for better filtering or search option later.
- Users also do this to refer to another post or describe their post with just a few words in a tag.
Benefits
- Tagging is easy to understand and do, even without training and previous knowledge in classification or indexing.
- The vocabulary in a folksonomy directly reflects the user's vocabulary.
- Folksonomies are flexible, in the sense that the user can add or remove tags
- Tags consist of both popular content and long-tail content, enabling users to browse and discover new content even in narrow topics.
- Tags reflect the user's conceptual model without cultural, social, or political bias.
- Enable the creation of communities, in the sense that users who apply the same tag have a common interest.
- Folksonomies are multi-dimensional, in the sense that users can assign any number and combination of tags to express a concept
Wikipedia
- also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing and social tagging.
- It was originally:
"the result of personal free tagging of information for one's own retrieval"