Folksonomy

A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content;^[1]^[2] this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.^{[citation needed]} Folksonomy, a term coined by Thomas Vander Wal, is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy.

Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004^[3] as part of social software applications such as social bookmarking and photograph annotation. Tagging, which is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 services, allows users to collectively classify and find information. Some websites include tag clouds as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy.^[4]

An empirical analysis of the complex dynamics of tagging systems, published in 2007,^[5] has shown that consensus around stable distributions and shared vocabularies does emerge, even in the absence of a central controlled vocabulary.For content to be searchable, it should be categorised and grouped. This is possible only if the content is tagged like keywords in a journal article.

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^ Peters, Isabella (2009). "Folksonomies. Indexing and Retrieval in Web 2.0.". Berlin: De Gruyter Saur.
^ Pink, Daniel H. (December 11, 2005). "Folksonomy". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas1-21.html. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
^ Vander Wal, Thomas. "Folksonomy Coinage and Definition". http://vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
^ Lamere, Paul (June 2008). "Social Tagging And Music Information Retrieval". Journal of New Music Research 37 (2): 101'114. doi:10.1080/09298210802479284. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a906001732.
^ Harry Halpin, Valentin Robu, Hana Shepherd The Complex Dynamics of Collaborative Tagging, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW'07), Banff, Canada, pp. 211-220, ACM Press, 2007.

Web syndication

History: Podcasting – Blogging

types

Art blog – Audio blog – Bloggernacle – Classical music – Corporate – Dream journal – Edublog – Fake blog – Family blog – Fashion – Food blog – Journalist blog – Law blog – Lifelog – Litblog – News blog – Online journal – Photoblog – Police blog – Political blog – Prayer blog – Project blog – Travel blog – Warblog

Technology

Feed – Torrent – Scheme

RSS	GeoRSS – MRSS – RSS TV

Features	Bliki – Linkback – Pingback – Permalink – Pingback – Refback – Rollback – Trackback

Mechan	Attaching – Synchronization – Tagging

Memetics	Atom feed – Data feed – Photofeed – Product feed – RDF feed – Web feed

Social	Editing – Live – Mashing – ^. pooling – referencing – Streaming – Tracking

Form

-cast: Audio – Enhanced – Mobilecast – Narrowcast – Peercast – Slidecasting – Screencast – Videocast

Bliki – Collaborative blog – Mobile blogging – Roblog – Microblog – Columnist – Spam blog – Video blogging – Instant messaging (SMS)

Media

Micromedia	Atom – AtomPub – NewsML (1 & G2) – social communication – Broadcatching – Aggregation (News, Poll, Review, Video & Search) – Web Slice

Alternative media	Diary – Journalism (Citizen Database) – Sideblog – Radioblog – Carnivals – Software – Directory – Fiction – Mediacast – Search

Related	Escribitionist – Blogosphere – Pay per click – Slashdot effect – Posting style – Spam in blogs – Glossary of blogging

v ' d ' e Semantic Web

Background	World Wide Web – Internet – Hypertext – Databases – Semantic networks – Ontologies

Sub-topics	Linked Data – Data Web – Hyperdata – Dereferenceable URIs – Rule bases – Data Spaces

Applications	Semantic wiki – Semantic publishing – Semantic search – Semantic computing – Semantic advertising – Semantic reasoner – Semantic matching – Semantic mapper – Semantic broker – Semantic analytics – Semantic service oriented architecture

Related topics	Folksonomy – Library 2.0 – Web 2.0 – Open Database Connectivity – References – Information architecture – Knowledge management – Collective intelligence – Topic Maps – Mindmapping – Metadata – Geotagging – Description logic

Standards	Syntax & Supporting Technologies : RDF (RDF/XML – Notation 3 – Turtle – N-Triples) – SPARQL – URI – HTTP – XML Schemas, Ontologies & Rules : RDFS – OWL – Rule Interchange Format – Semantic Web Rule Language – Common Logic Semantic Annotation : RDFa – eRDF – GRDDL – Microformats Common Vocabularies : FOAF – SIOC – Dublin Core – SKOS Others: Plain Old Semantic HTML

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