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...

quality, or tags that collectively or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users...

Vander Wal is an information architect best known for coining the term "folksonomy". He is also known for initiating the term "infocloud". His work has primarily...

social and organizational tools, such as annotation, categorization, folksonomy-based tagging, social cataloging and commenting. The website may also...

folksonomies. A folksonomy is broad when there is no restriction on the set of taggers and available tags. When there are limitations, the folksonomy...

networking sites or social media sites (e.g., Facebook), blogs, wikis, folksonomies ("tagging" keywords on websites and links), video sharing sites (e.g...

March 2014. Flickr has been cited as a prime example of effective use of folksonomy. Users can organize their Flickr photos into "albums" (formerly "sets")...

specific digger theme or content. It allowed easy, informal markup of folksonomy without need of any formal taxonomy or markup language. Hashtags have...

form of a controlled vocabulary), whereas bottom-up taxonomies (called folksonomies) are created by all users.: 142  This definition of "top down" and "bottom...

Clay Shirky Shirky on the Folksonomy panel at the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California Born 1964 (age 59–60) Columbia...