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February 9, 2005

Folksonomy Thoughts

Have you read much about Folksonomies? The idea is simple yet profound. Allow users to classify content based on their own classification system. Dont build extended top-down ontologies or taxonomies; allow them to emerge from the ground up. The responsibility of the Metadata Services Group would then be to reconcile these classifications and ensure information can be shared across business units. Personally, I havent done anything to move this concept into the enterprise but I am curious. What I love about the idea is that it would provide a fairly simple classification, perhaps only two layers deep. Only about 10% of the terms would be outside the reconciled classification scheme which could be a really useful tool.

Posted by Todd at February 9, 2005 6:27 PM