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Do some searches (say "family playing without dad") - it's truely an amazingly effective tool, geared towards people who need to find exact and effective things quickly. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. Expensive to maintain?
People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Michele Martin's NpTech Search.
Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. How are they different from taxonomies?
Here's an example of "social search" in action. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny
The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data.
You can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that users have created and saved. A few nonprofits are using socialbookmarking to track resources or follow particular topics for trend analysis for strategic planning. s a folksonomy. tag as private???
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