folksonomy Concepts

Mining the Social Web: Finding Needles in the Social Haystack

by Matthew A. Russell · 15 Jan 2011 · 541pp · 109,698 words

bridging knowledge and aware of the power of information, whereas someone who averages 0.1 hashtags per tweet probably is less so. What’s a Folksonomy? A fundamental aspect of human intelligence is the desire to classify things and derive a hierarchy in which each element “belongs to” or is a

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about the difference between a taxonomy and an ontology, a taxonomy is essentially a hierarchical structure that classifies elements into parent/child bins. The term folksonomy was coined around 2004 as a means of describing the universe of collaborative tagging and social indexing efforts that emerge in various ecosystems of the

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Web, and it’s a play on words in the sense that it blends “folk” and “taxonomy.” So, in essence, a folksonomy is just a fancy way of describing the decentralized universe of tags that emerges as a mechanism of collective intelligence when you allow people to

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who regularly tweets, including a hashtag that much of the time provides a substantial contribution to the overall Twitter search index and the ever-evolving folksonomy. As a follow-up exercise, it could be interesting to compute the average number of hyperlink entities per tweet, or even go so far as

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it is probably a very good indicator and very well may be so. Whether they realize it or not, #TeaParty Twitterers are big believers in folksonomies: they clearly have a vested interest in ensuring that their content is easily accessible and cross-referenced via search APIs and data hackers such as

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), Quality of Analytics feedparser module, Sentence Detection in Blogs with NLTK findall( ), Extracting relationships from the tweets FOAF (Friend of a Friend), XFN and Friends folksonomy, How Many of Tim’s Tweets Contain Hashtags? Food Network, Slicing and Dicing Recipes (for the Health of It) forward chaining, Inferencing About an Open

Television disrupted: the transition from network to networked TV

by Shelly Palmer · 14 Apr 2006 · 406pp · 88,820 words

“tag clusters” or “tag clouds” is the process of allowing users to create their own taxonomies that feed a central community taxonomy to create a “folksonomy,” which, as simply as it can be described, is a collaborative description of a given object. Copyright © 2006, Shelly Palmer. All rights reserved. 6-Television

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7:22 AM Page 82 82 C H A P T E R 6 Content, Storytellers, Gatekeepers and Related Skills Folksonomy On www.vanderwal.net, Thomas Vander Wal (who coined the term folksonomy) describes it as “the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one

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Media Consumption networking sites like friendster.com or myspace.com are also big brands, so this may be just another permutation of branded search. (See “Folksonomy” in Chapter 6.) The Myth of the Media Center – the Fight for the Living Room Media center computers are personal computers that include television tuner

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new computer programs into an Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM) chip. Focus Moving a cursor over an area of the screen to highlight it. Folksonomy Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. FoodTV Food Network is a unique lifestyle network and web site that

Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

by William H. Inmon, Bonnie K. O'Neil and Lowell Fryman · 15 Feb 2008 · 314pp · 94,600 words

Visibility versus Usefulness 113 Knowledge Capture from Individuals: The Individual Documentation Problem 114 Web 2.0 and Knowledge Capture 115 Mashups 115 User-Defined Tags: Folksonomy 118 Summary 119 References 119 89 Complete Table of Contents xiii Chapter 7 Capturing Business Metadata from Existing Data 7.1 7.2 7.3

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(both their own and everyone else’s) and share them? Would this make searches easier for everyone? This self-organizing tagging structure is called a folksonomy, made popular by a Web site called del.icio.us. It follows the “Wisdom of Crowds” philosophy (made popular by the book of the same

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the Web in recent years. It includes (to name a few): ✦ Wikis ✦ Blogs (short for weblogs; dated postings by an individual on any subject imaginable) ✦ Folksonomy and dynamic, collaborative tagging (example, del.icio.us) ✦ Social networking (example, MySpace) ✦ Customization/personalization of newsfeed (example RSS feeds) ✦ Mashups (dynamic integration of disparate types

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. We will close the chapter with a brief sampling of two exciting examples of Web 2.0 that provide business metadata capture using mashups and folksonomy/dynamic, user-defined tags. 6.10.1 Mashups BEA’s Aqua Logic product Pages provides the business user with a means to create his or

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to Assign a Sales Rep to a New Account Based on Geographic Data. 118 Chapter 6 Business Metadata Capture 6.10.2 User-Defined Tags: Folksonomy Just as wikis help to foster collective intelligence, tagging helps to harness it to find things easier. Chapter 4 discussed how taxonomies can help people

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document titles and tagging. Tagging is usually done manually either by the document author, someone else charged with tagging after the fact, or through a folksonomy like del.icio.us. But a true semantic web could decipher document contents on its own. On a smaller scale, the semantic web means distinguishing

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the technologies available for creating business metadata. In the past, IT was limited in the development of applications to create and integrate business metadata. Today, folksonomies, wikis, blogs, portal technologies, groupware in general, and enterprise mashups are some of the technologies that are making business metadata more accessible to businesspeople with

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simple as good descriptive file names. Some interesting Web trends are setting the stage for new ways of sharing tags and categorizing information such as folksonomies, manifested in sites such as del.icio.us and flickr. Del.icio.us allows you to tag Web sites and share your tags with others

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, and it also takes advantage of other people’s tags to find similar information. Flickr is another example of a folksonomy; you share your pictures online, and you tag them different things, based on your own way of understanding the world. Both are creative examples of

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rationale, 90–93 technical metadata conversion to business metadata, 135–136 287 288 Index Capture, business metadata (Continued) technology search, 109–111 Web 2.0 folksonomy, 118–119 mashups, 115–116 overview, 115 Card catalog, see Library card catalog CDC, see Centers for Disease Control Centers for Disease Control (CDC), linking

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metadata management, 168 Financial audit metadata utility, 250 transaction background activities, 250–251 First-order logic (FOL), semantic framework, 206 FOL, see First-order logic Folksonomy knowledge capture, 118–119 self-organizing tags, 77 Forms, see Corporate forms Fourth generation language historical perspective, 6–7 metadata handling, 11 Funding, business metadata

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pulling, 223 relationship recognition, 228–229 stemmed words, 225 word counting, 226 Value/frequency report, data profiling, 181, 184–186 Web 2.0 knowledge capture folksonomy, 118–119 mashups, 115–116 overview, 115 semantic Web, 195–196 Web Ontology Language (OWL), semantic framework, 204–205, 210 Web Services, semantics interface, 212

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine

by Peter Lunenfeld · 31 Mar 2011 · 239pp · 56,531 words

, allow users to categorize, collect, and share their archiving strategies, and has even led to a new term for this explosion of user-generated activity: “folksonomies.”1 The opposition here is between librarians, archivists, and information specialists, who all professionalize and systematize this kind of activity into “taxonomies,” and the evolving

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personal and social-group-driven folksonomies. The taxonomists are those who have devoted their lives to sophisticated systems for categorizing and organizing the world, drawing on predecessors from eighteenth-century Swedish

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are linked through the network, they become markers in ever-larger systems, adding levels of what has come to be termed “metadata.” The downside of folksonomies is that they lack clear rules: people tag pictures of their cat with its name or what the animal may be doing, rather than as

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, metatag (the cat’s cuteness or ability to use a toilet come to mind).3 As they layer complexity and even confusion into expanding networks, folksonomies expand affordances for uploading and comprise a net social good. Social media sites like MySpace and Facebook enable users to create giga-, tera-, and even

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becomes easier, while ﬁnding, sorting, and storing become ever-more complex. The relentless push to market technological innovation helps drive new habits of mind like folksonomies, but also places attractive impediments in their way. Two of the present grails are ubiquity—the embedding of computational power in every environment—and mobility

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: WEB n.0 1. See <http://ﬂickr.com>; <http://www.del.icio.us>. The term was coined by Thomas Vander Wal. See Daniel H. Pink, “Folksonomy,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, December 11, 2005, available at <http://www.nytimes. com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas1-21.html?ex=1291957200&en=50937f27a09

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, David, 175 Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 94 FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate), 99–100 Flickr, 34, 75, 80 Flow, 22–24, 184n12 Flying cars, xiv Folksonomies, 80–81 Fortune magazine, 155 Fountain (Duchamp), 48 Fox Studios, 63, 91 Frauenfelder, Mark, 68–69 Free culture, 75, 92, 98–99 Freedom software, 22

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–160, 166–168, 175–178 downloading and, 143, 168 emulation and, 183n3 213 INDEX Social issues (continued) ﬁgure/ground and, xvi, 42–43, 46, 102 folksonomies and, 80–81 hackers and, 22–23, 54, 67, 69, 162, 170–173 Holocaust and, 107 Hosts and, xv, 144, 167, 175 hypercontexts and, xvi

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), 108 Twins paradox, 49–50 Twitter, 34, 180n2 2001 (ﬁlm), 107 Ubiquity, xiii bespoke futures and, 125, 128 culture machine and, 144, 166, 177–178 folksonomies and, 80–81 Freedom software and, 22–23 hotspots and, xiv information overload and, 22, 149 isotypes and, 125 stickiness and, 22–23 unimodernism and

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futures and, 99, 123, 128 Creative Commons culture and, 90–93 downloading and, 79, 82–83, 86–87 environmental impact report (EIR) for, 79–80 folksonomies and, 80–81 information and, 80–81, 92 infrastructure battles and, 83 markets and, 81, 83, 86, 90 Metcalfe’s corollary and, 86–87 power

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff · 23 May 2011 · 344pp · 96,690 words

group,” while we would classify it “forum” and “fan phenomena.” This loose, overlapping classification of tags is sometimes called a folksonomy, a term coined by Thomas Vander Wal.14 A folksonomy depends on the opinions of the folks out there, not on the experts. Tags have become the standard way that sites

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Books, 2007). The author’s Web site is at www.evident.com. 14. Folksonomy, a term coined by Thomas Vander Wal: For a history of the term folksonomy, see Thomas Vander Wal’s February 2, 2007, blog post “Folksonomy” on the blog vanderwal.net, visible at http://forr.com/gsw2-14. 15. A

Designing Search: UX Strategies for Ecommerce Success

by Greg Nudelman and Pabini Gabriel-Petit · 8 May 2011

fluidly moving between activities such as typing in a query and then refining that query; browsing search results, product categories, or brand catalogs; navigating tag folksonomies; or expanding a search by following breadcrumbs. Most likely, these patterns reflect human species’ relatively nascent adaptation of the ancient food- and shelter-seeking behaviors

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were positively received due to a strong user perception that these recommended queries represent the combined “wisdom of the crowds” similar to the concept of folksonomies and tagging. Note—On the other hand, many people I observed were highly suspicious of any orthogonal queries that recommended competing brands or products. For

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dictate their innate psychic predispositions and aptitudes, which condition their responses to life experience and basic patterns of human behavior. At the root of all folksonomies (see sidebar) is the inherent assumption that people—looked at collectively—tend to respond in similar ways when presented with the same stimuli. Simply put

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taken the time to tag with the word cat. Figure 14-2: Google Images search results for iPhone with filters Large, Clipart and Green applied Folksonomy Folksonomy is a term coined by Thomas Vander Wal in 2004 using a combination of two words, folks and taxonomy

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. Folksonomy refers to a system of classification based on the practice of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate digital content. It has also been called

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collaborative tagging, social indexing, or social tagging. As Gene Smith describes in his book, Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web, folksonomies and tagging usually work well—in most cases adequately resolving the auto-indexing issues that occur in the context of Google Images, as described earlier

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29, 2010. Retrieved March 12, 2011. Sterling, Bruce. Shaping Things. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005. Photosynth of the Obama inauguration, CNN, 2009. Vander Wal, Thomas. “Folksonomy: coinage and definition.” Vanderwal.net, February 2, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2009. Wroblewski, Luke. “Mobile Forms Workshop,” Design4Mobile 2010. Chapter 15 Designing Mobile Search: Turning

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. Clustering is an old technique for introducing patterns in data. When a computer can employ a powerful similarity algorithm along with people’s tagging and folksonomies, users stand the best chance to make sense of large collections of products. In this scenario, applying different filters is almost effortless, with intelligent defaults

The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo Rking

by Mark Bauerlein · 7 Sep 2011 · 407pp · 103,501 words

del.icio.us and Flickr, two companies that have received a great deal of attention of late, have pioneered a concept that some people call “folksonomy” (in contrast to taxonomy), a style of collaborative categorization of sites using freely chosen keywords, often referred to as tags. Tagging allows for the kind

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World Facial expressions Fake, Caterina Farley, Jim Fast ForWard program 50 Cent Flexibility practicums Flexible Bodies (Martin) Flexible self Flexible workplaces Flextime Flickr Focault, Michel Folksonomy Foreman, Richard Fortune 500, 43things.com Fox Fragmented self Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control

The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy

by Tyler Cowen · 25 May 2010 · 254pp · 72,929 words

) under my name, including a photo of myself and also a photo of a large stack of books. The new word for such sites is “folksonomy,” which combines the two roots of “folk” and “taxonomy.” What is Wikipedia but a vast ordered, intellectual space to collate and effectively present the factual

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), 220 Flickr, 11 focal points, 130–32, 133, 136 focusing of Adam Smith, 168 of autistics, 92–94, 109, 111 and education, 108–9, 115 folksonomy, 11 food preferences, 31 framing effects and articulable interests, 89 and autistics, 196 and communication, 78–84 defined, 6 and the experience machine, 143–44

Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters

by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words

individual users – crucially not at the point of publication but across the life of an image – is necessarily communal and amateur. The practice was termed ‘folksonomy’ by self-styled ‘information architect’ Thomas Vander Wal in 2004. Users apply public tags to online items, developing a folk taxonomy with no dictating ethos

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financialisation, 213 finished product, 43 Fisher, Joseph P., 95 Fisher, Mark, 23, 48, 75, 106, 129 Flarf, 45–6 Flota, Brian, 95 folk art, 160 folksonomy, 159 form, and content, 35 Foucault, Michel, 33–4, 131, 132, 202 4chan, 31, 42, 48, 73 #gamergate, 30 fragmentation, forms of, 80 fragments, aesthetic

The Connected Company

by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal · 2 Dec 2014 · 372pp · 89,876 words

member of VizThink, an international community of Visual Thinkers. Thomas Vander Wal has been working with folksonomies since their darkest origins, and is credited with inventing the terms 'folksonomy'and 'infocloud'. He talks and writes about folksonomies more or less continuously. Thomas is also on the Steering Committee of the Web Standards Project