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PubSub bookmarks
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» A practice for people to organize and share information in
a collaborative and decentralized manner.
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<h3>
Folksonomy
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<p>
Folksonomy is a system of classification that is created by
individual people, rather than by professionals (who
sometimes refer themselves as experts) such as archivers or
librarians. It is a fashion for people to collaboratively
tag and categorize information, often using keywords or
labels.
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<h4>
Characteristics
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Among the characteristics of folksonomy are: independency,
collaborativeness, and being dynamic;
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Tags are self-generated by individual people, not by a
centralized authority;
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Tags can be added by multiple people to the same item,
and thereby they create a collective understanding;
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Tags can be added, removed, and updated over time,
reflecting evolving usage, accuracy and interests;
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There is no single source of truth or control over the
tagging process.
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Benefits
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Because people can easily find relevant content by searching
for specific tags; and shared tagging promotes collective
understanding and knowledge creation; and people feel more
involved and empowered by contributing their own insights,
which consequently also fosters serendipitous discovery.
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The benefits of folksonomies spans from improved
discoverability of contents to enhanced collaboration and
increased engagement of people by contributing and
benefiting to the overhaul system.
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In addition, tagging in folksonomies generates an
extraordinary wealth of metadata which is associated with
each item.
By this rich metadata, which consists of self-generated
tags, provides additional and valuable information and
context that often enhance searchability, discovery, and
browsing capabilities.
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<h4>
Impact
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It was written in Adam Mathes' recent paper on folksonomies that:
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“There is a fundamental difference in the activities of
browsing to find interesting content, as opposed to direct
searching to find relevant documents in a query. It is
similar to the difference between exploring a problem space
to formulate questions, as opposed to actually looking for
answers to specifically formulated questions. Information
seeking behavior varies based on context.”
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<h4>
Conclusion
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<p>
By practicing and engaging in folksonomy systems, people
find many interesting resources that are related to their
special and specific needs, that they could not have found
using search engines. Blasta has some interesting advantages
over search engines, and one of them is being folksonomy
driven.
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The power of the people cannot be more evident than the
awesome resource that is Wikipedia, albeit is has been
gradually controlled by
<a href="https://www.fivefilters.org/2023/glenn-greenwald-on-wikipedia-bias/">
special interests</a>. Imagine what might happen if a search
engine (e.g. YaCy) can be engineered by people!
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Resources
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<li>
<a href="http://adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html">
Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
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&#8203;&#8202;
(adammathes.com)
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<a href="http://www.sylloge.com/personal/2004/08/folksonomy-social-classification-great.html">
Folksonomy : social classification
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&#8203;&#8202;
(sylloge.com)
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.lisedunetwork.com/folksonomy/">
What is Folksonomy?
</a>
&#8203;&#8202;
(lisedunetwork.com)
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“I think the lack of hierarchy, synonym control and semantic
precision are precisely why it works. Free typing loose
associations is just a lot easier than making a decision
about the degree of match to a pre-defined category
(especially hierarchical ones).”
― Stewart Butterfield
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