{"id":157,"date":"2006-12-13T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2006-12-13T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T20:17:57","slug":"metadata-folksonomy-and-the-art-of-tagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/metadata-folksonomy-and-the-art-of-tagging\/","title":{"rendered":"Metadata: Folksonomy and the Art of Tagging in the Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the world of Web2.0 the concept of social bookmarking via\u00a0Tagging<\/a> has become a very popular way of classifying information.\u00a0 This method of classification is being called folksonomy<\/a>.\u00a0 Two web sites that have popularized tagging are Flickr<\/a> and deli.icio.us<\/a>.\u00a0 This approach is often described as being ‘democratic’ in that it allows full participation by an entire community in classifying and choosing content that has high relevancy.\u00a0 It relies on a large number of active participants to classify and create the tags — generally the more participants involved, the greater the accuracy, the more content that gets tagged,\u00a0and the easier it becomes for users to find information.<\/p>\n

The folksonomy approach compared to\u00a0a more standard hierarchical taxonomy provides much more flexibility.\u00a0 Tagging allows some content items to be easily related to multiple categories or groups, rather than being relegated to a single fixed bin or folder.\u00a0 Frequently used tags are grouped into “tag clouds” that typically display a cluster of tag words\u00a0of varying font sizes with the most commonly used tags being displayed\u00a0in the largest font.<\/p>\n

Folksonomy is something very new and will no doubt evolve.\u00a0 A weakness of current implementations is that tag clouds today have no other weightings than the number of times\u00a0a tag\u00a0is used.\u00a0 Adding\u00a0a dimension\u00a0or weighting of time\u00a0would make tag relevancies more accurate because tag relevancies can be skewed towards tags that have had a lot of activity during a short period of time\u00a0but which later lose relevancy.<\/p>\n

In the enterprise, folksonomy and tagging could help users more easily find information, documents and projects.\u00a0\u00a0Folksonomy could enhance a more traditional taxonomy approach, but in most cases, in a business environment,\u00a0could not alone replace existing classification techniques.\u00a0 Records Management initiatives, for example,\u00a0are centered on the idea of being able to apply complex disposition and lifecyle information stored within a FilePlan, and the taxonomies associated with FilePlans are very rigidly defined.<\/p>\n

Taxonomy supplemented by Folksonomy can become a very powerful tool within the enterprise for assisting with enterprise search and improving\u00a0user productivity.<\/p>\n

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In the world of Web2.0 the concept of social bookmarking via\u00a0Tagging has become a very popular way of classifying information.\u00a0 This method of classification is being called folksonomy.\u00a0 Two web sites that have popularized tagging are Flickr and deli.icio.us.\u00a0 This…<\/span><\/p>\n

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