a system of organizing information on a website in which different users add their own words to describe the information they find there so that other users can use these words to find the information. Folksonomy is a combination of the words ’folk’ and ’taxonomy’..
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Folksonomy is a blend of the words folk(s) and taxonomy. It was first coined in 2004 by US information consultant Thomas Vander Wal, who had observed the phenomenon at websites such as flickr.com. Flickr™ is an online photo-sharing application where users can communally view and label photos with descriptive keywords, thereby creating an ad hoc, bottom-up classification system for a gigantic photo library.
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an online classification system in which users add keywords to online content as a way of categorising the information they find there
Derived from the combination of ‘folk’ (people) and taxonomy (the science of ordering information), folksonomy has become synonymous with social or ‘collaborative tagging’ – a phenomenon of the so-called ‘social web’.
Submitted by: Kerry on 18/03/2016
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Folksonomy is a blend of the words folk(s) and taxonomy. It was first coined in 2004 by US information consultant Thomas Vander Wal, who had observed the phenomenon at websites such as flickr.com. Flickr™ is an online photo-sharing application where users can communally view and label photos with descriptive keywords, thereby creating an ad hoc, bottom-up classification system for a gigantic photo library.
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folksonomy
noun countable/uncountable
US /foʊksˈɑnəmi/
Word Forms
singular
folksonomy
plural
folksonomies
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a system of organizing information on a website in which different users add their own words to describe the information they find there so that other users can use these words to find the information. Folksonomy is a combination of the words ’folk’ and ’taxonomy’..
Synonyms and related words
The internet
access number
account name
address
Featured as a BuzzWord!
Folksonomy is a blend of the words folk(s) and taxonomy. It was first coined in 2004 by US information consultant Thomas Vander Wal, who had observed the phenomenon at websites such as flickr.com. Flickr™ is an online photo-sharing application where users can communally view and label photos with descriptive keywords, thereby creating an ad hoc, bottom-up classification system for a gigantic photo library.
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an online classification system in which users add keywords to online content as a way of categorising the information they find there
Derived from the combination of ‘folk’ (people) and taxonomy (the science of ordering information), folksonomy has become synonymous with social or ‘collaborative tagging’ – a phenomenon of the so-called ‘social web’.
Submitted by: Kerry on 18/03/2016
Featured as a BuzzWord!
Folksonomy is a blend of the words folk(s) and taxonomy. It was first coined in 2004 by US information consultant Thomas Vander Wal, who had observed the phenomenon at websites such as flickr.com. Flickr™ is an online photo-sharing application where users can communally view and label photos with descriptive keywords, thereby creating an ad hoc, bottom-up classification system for a gigantic photo library.