With the collaborative indexing system which Blasta offers,
- you can be rest assured that you will find the references
- and resources that you need in order to be productive and
- get that you need.
+ and its folksonomical
+ nature you can be rest assured that you will find the
+ references and resources that you need in order to be
+ productive and get that you need.
The things that you can do with Blasta are endless
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+
Fields that are marked with an asterisk
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+
+ » A practice for people to organize and share information in
+ a collaborative and decentralized manner.
+
+
+ Folksonomy
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ Characteristics
+
+
+ Among the characteristics of folksonomy are: independency,
+ collaborativeness, and being dynamic;
+
+
+ Tags are self-generated by individual people, not by a
+ centralized authority;
+
+
+ Tags can be added by multiple people to the same item,
+ and thereby they create a collective understanding;
+
+
+ Tags can be added, removed, and updated over time,
+ reflecting evolving usage, accuracy and interests;
+
+
+ There is no single source of truth or control over the
+ tagging process.
+
+
+ Benefits
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ It was written in Adam Mathes' recent paper on folksonomies that:
+
+
+ “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.”
+
+
+ Conclusion
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ The power of the people cannot be more evident than the
+ awesome resource that is Wikipedia, albeit is has been
+ gradually controlled by
+
+ special interests. Imagine what might happen if a search
+ engine (e.g. YaCy) can be engineered by people!
+
+ “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
+
The method instance:keyword is a practice which improves
bookmarks organizing, archiving, filtering and searching, as
- it narrows the context of a given bookmark.
+ it narrows the context of a given bookmark, and therefore
+ improves Folksonomy
+ practices.
Suppose you have two bookmarks; one is related to
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+