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February 11, 2005
Folksonomies Once More
After pondering and reading a ton of material on this concept, I have come to one conclusion; Folksonomies are one of the first Consumer taxonomies. Yes, I know that a single term classification system does not a taxonomy make. However, think about this for a moment. Most taxonomies, ontologies, and classification system are either built by the producer of assets or the brokering group. This is true in the corporation (information models) as well as the Internet (Yahoos business classification system). There are 90 billion web pages out there, but my favorites are organized in a simple one level folder structure with only about 30 sites saved. Hence, my personal classification system is simple and contains a small volume of sites. Folkonomies allow the consumer classify content by the use of single terms which then can be reconciled by the broker. I do not see any reason for not integrating this technology into our current enterprise environment with the exception of lack of tools. Ok, that is a big exception but in theory, this technology could provide some value-add in the ability to actually locate content within the enterprise. Thoughts?
Posted by Todd at February 11, 2005 5:37 PM
Comments
I have been thinking about a personal classification system, and so googled your entry above. I just learned about dewey again (I've been in library work before), but it is not a system that one can use for bookmarks, and document filing. I wonder if there are natural structure, order to all the elements of my life. Any thoughts, reading recommendations?
Posted by: Eric Robinson at December 27, 2005 2:00 PM