We put the folks in folksonomy
First off I would like to break apart this intricate word, folksonomy, so that it is in laymen’s terms for those of my readers who may not be able to understand it. So here goes we have folks and onomy and according to wikipedia’s academic studies it means “how average people (non-experts) classify the world around them.” Huh I’m kind of offended by that. Nevertheless moving right along.
Folksonomy needs a little more explaining than just that. It is actually a newly created term that refers to categorization based on key words. Such as, on the internet, using the site del.icio.us we can “tag” a picture with a keyword dog and then when somebody types that word in to look for pictures they will find all the picture that people have tagged dog. It’s a rather simple way of getting the information one needs, however, it’s not perfect. One problem with a folksonomy is that at the moment it is only used for pictures and blogs as Danielle says and it becomes difficult when only one word tags are used. If we are only using one word tags we are likely to get all kinds of responses that don’t necessarily apply to what we were looking for. As Joy says it’s not that big yet but it will soon be and we are the generation that will grow with it which yes it is pretty cool.
As for corporations I think it’s defiantly something that can benefit them. Going back to my original explanation of the word it seems that since corporations need to gain the support of us the “average” people folksonomies are the way to go. It gives us the information we need and thus benefits them because of what we have learned.
Folksonomy needs a little more explaining than just that. It is actually a newly created term that refers to categorization based on key words. Such as, on the internet, using the site del.icio.us we can “tag” a picture with a keyword dog and then when somebody types that word in to look for pictures they will find all the picture that people have tagged dog. It’s a rather simple way of getting the information one needs, however, it’s not perfect. One problem with a folksonomy is that at the moment it is only used for pictures and blogs as Danielle says and it becomes difficult when only one word tags are used. If we are only using one word tags we are likely to get all kinds of responses that don’t necessarily apply to what we were looking for. As Joy says it’s not that big yet but it will soon be and we are the generation that will grow with it which yes it is pretty cool.
As for corporations I think it’s defiantly something that can benefit them. Going back to my original explanation of the word it seems that since corporations need to gain the support of us the “average” people folksonomies are the way to go. It gives us the information we need and thus benefits them because of what we have learned.
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