Everything about Folksonomy
Classification based on users' tags
Folksonomy is a classification system in which end users apply public tags to online items, typically to make those items easier for themselves or others to find later. Over time, this can give rise to a classification system based on those tags and how often they are applied or searched for, in contrast to a taxonomic classification designed by the owners of the content and specified when it is published. Folksonomy was originally "the result of personal free tagging of information [...] for one's own retrieval", but online sharing and interaction expanded it into more collaborative forms. Social tagging is the application of tags in an open online environment where the tags of other users are available to others. Collaborative tagging, also known as group tagging, is a form of tagging that is performed by a group of users. This type of folksonomy is commonly used in cooperative and collaborative projects, including research, content repositories, and social bookmarking. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: FolksonomyA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: FOLKSONOMÍA EN PLATAFORMAS DE JUEGOS ELECTRÓNICOS: ANÁLISIS DE LOS MARCADORES POPULARES EN LOS GÉNEROS ROGUELIKE Y SOULSLIKEInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Advances in Multimedia ModelingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The folksonomy tag cloud: when is it useful?Cited 224 times
- Go sideways: Social bookmarkingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Tag (metadata)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Noun A user-generated taxonomy.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The folksonomy tag cloud: when is it useful?
Ontology of Folksonomy
Categorising social tags to improve folksonomy-based recommendations
Incorporating sentiment into tag-based user profiles and resource profiles for personalized search in folksonomy
Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museums: Proof of concept
Community-aware user profile enrichment in folksonomy
The Structure and Form of Folksonomy Tags: The Road to the Public Library Catalog
Linking folksonomy to Library of Congress subject headings: an exploratory study
🆕 Influential since 2022
FOLKSONOMÍA EN PLATAFORMAS DE JUEGOS ELECTRÓNICOS: ANÁLISIS DE LOS MARCADORES POPULARES EN LOS GÉNEROS ROGUELIKE Y SOULSLIKE
Analysing and Examining Taxonomy and Folksonomy Terms in the Hybrid Subject Device using Machine Learning Techniques
Análise das hashtags em postagens no microcosmo da literatura fantástica no Instagram sob a luz da Folksonomia
İNTERNET FOLKLORUNUN OLUŞMASINDA FOLKSONOMİNİN ROLÜ ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA
A FOLKSONOMIA COMO RECURSO DE DESIGN E CURADORIA DIGITAL NO CONTEXTO DA CIÊNCIA DA INFORMAÇÃO
📚 Books worth reading
Advances in Multimedia ModelingShipeng Li · 2012- 📕Folksonomies und Social Tagging Im Praktischen EinsatzIsabella Peters · 2014
Information architectureWei Ding · 2010- 📕Metaphors of the Web 2. 0Alexander Tokar · 2009
- 📕Folksonomies. Indexing and Retrieval in Web 2. 0Isabella Peters · 2009
Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive SystemsTim Hussein · 2013
FolksonomiesConcha Sáez del Álamo · 2017- 📕Understanding FolksonomyThomas Van Der Walt · 2010
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