Folksonomies: (Un)Controlled Vocabulary?

Noruzi, Alireza Folksonomies: (Un)Controlled Vocabulary? Knowledge Organization, 2006, vol. 33, n. 4, pp. 199-203. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Folksonomy, a free-form tagging, is a user-generated classification system of web contents that allows users to tag their favorite web resources with their chosen words or phrases selected from natural language. These tags (also called concepts, categories, facets or entities) can be used to classify web resources and to express users' preferences. Folksonomy-based systems allow users to classify web resources through tagging bookmarks, photos or other web resources and saving them to a public web site like Del.icio.us. Thus information about web resources and online articles can be shared in an easy way. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the folksonomy tagging phenomenon (also called social tagging and social bookmarking) and explore some of the reasons why we need controlled vocabularies, discussing the problems associated with folksonomy.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Collaborative tagging; Folksonomy; Social bookmarks; Social classification; Classification
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services > IC. Index languages, processes and schemes.
I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HQ. Web pages.
L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines.
L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW.
I. Information treatment for information services > IA. Cataloging, bibliographic control.
Depositing user: Dr. Alireza Noruzi
Date deposited: 25 Aug 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:09
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10307

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