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Folksonomies and image tagging: seeing the future?

Diane Neal has written an article on folksonomies, from a librarian's perspective. To quote:

Folksonomies are one of today's hottest Internet trends. They are but one part of Web 2.0, which, in part, refers to the ability of Internet users to add, change and improve World Wide Web content. A folksonomy is created as users of a website add "tags" (keywords) to describe items on a website. The users choose their own keywords; few or no restrictions are imposed on their choices. The terms are not chosen from a previously existing controlled vocabulary, a strict taxonomy or any other officially sanctioned method of bibliographic description.

[Thanks to InfoDesign.]

Posted by jamesr on October 11, 2007 09:38 AM
Categories: Information architecture